Android Question Obtaining Directory Permissions

[Richard Peck]

Hi,

Does anyone know a way of obtaining a directory or file permissions w

 

[Erel]

You can run 'chmod' with Phone.Shell and parse the result.

 

[Richard Peck]

I know, but that's using the shell command. What I'm trying to do is to obtain the existing permissions before changing them. I
know I can use the shell command "ls -l' to get them but I trying not to have to parse the results to find the permission. I'm tring to

You can run 'chmod' with Phone.Shell and parse the result.

 

[Erel]

I don't think that there is any other API in Android to get the permissions. Also note that not all external storages support file permissions.