[SailfishDevel] Folder permissions

[Andrey Kozhevnikov]

/usr/share/appname is read only for applications

$HOME/.local/share/appname is read and write

On 09.03.2014 23:33, Iosif Hamlatzis wrote:
> When deploying a game/application where should its resources 
> (images/sounds/settings files) be stored so that the game/application 
> can have both read and write permissions?
>
> I tried to use the /usr/share/$$(TARGET) folder where $$(TARGET) is 
> the name of my game but it seams the game doesn't have permissions on 
> this folder. Not even read permissions.
>
> I use:
>
> FILE* pFile = fopen("/usr/share/MyGame/Home/settings.bin", "r+b");
> and pFile is NULL, I know the file exists because I ssh into the 
> emulator and my resources are all there under the folder, so the 
> deployment succeeded but I notice the owner and the group is root 
> although I would have expected something like nemo.
>
>
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