--- Mario Ivankovits wrote: > The main problem is the lack of support in the > underlaying libraries. > Even for local files we might need a native library > (I hate native > libraries) to set permissions as there is no real > support in java.io.file. See [io] FileSystemUtils for an example of using the command line from Java to get the free space on the drive. You could extend this [io] class to add file permissions. Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org