How to set file permissions (cross platform) in C++?

Question

I am using C++ ofstream to write out a file. I want to set the permissions to be only accessible by the user: 700. In unix; I suppose I can just issue a s

Answer 1

There's no standard way to do this in C++, but for this special requirement you should probably just write a custom wrapper, with #ifdef _WIN32. Qt has a permission wrapper in it's QFile class, but this would of course mean depending on Qt ...