Tribblix: manual page: CURLOPT_NEW_FILE

CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS(3) Introduction to Library Functions

NAME

CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS - permissions for remotely created files

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS,
long mode);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as a parameter, containing the value of the permissions
that are set on newly created files on the remote server. The default
value is 0644. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://,
scp://, and file://.

DEFAULT

0644

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects file, scp and sftp

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode ret;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://upload.example.com/file.txt");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NEW_FILE_PERMS, 0664L);
ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.16.4

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error
occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).