首先参考

Android 内部存储相关的函数（getCacheDir,getDir, getFileStreamPath,getFilesDir,openFileInput, ...)

1. 用openFileOutput方法改变文件的属性，但是该方法有局限性，他创建的文件只能位于该程序的私有目录下，即/data/data/app-package/files/。

    FileOutputStream fos;    
    fos = openFileOutput("filename", MODE_WORLD_READABLE);   

FileOutputStream android.content.ContextWrapper.openFileOutput(String name, int mode) throws FileNotFoundException

Open a private file associated with this Context‘s application package for writing. Creates the file if it doesn‘t already exist.

可用的mode 参数如下：

    /**
     * File creation mode: the default mode, where the created file can only
     * be accessed by the calling application (or all applications sharing the
     * same user ID).
     * @see #MODE_WORLD_READABLE
     * @see #MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE
     */
    public static final int MODE_PRIVATE = 0x0000;
    /**
     * File creation mode: allow all other applications to have read access
     * to the created file.
     * @see #MODE_PRIVATE
     * @see #MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE
     */
    public static final int MODE_WORLD_READABLE = 0x0001;
    /**
     * File creation mode: allow all other applications to have write access
     * to the created file.
     * @see #MODE_PRIVATE
     * @see #MODE_WORLD_READABLE
     */
    public static final int MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE = 0x0002;
    /**
     * File creation mode: for use with {@link #openFileOutput}, if the file
     * already exists then write data to the end of the existing file
     * instead of erasing it.
     * @see #openFileOutput
     */
    public static final int MODE_APPEND = 0x8000;

最终的实现方式剖析：

最终还是调用了系统的chmod来实现的改变文件权限的功能。

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod 644 " + filename);  

2. 用Runtime.getRuntime().exec()调用系统命令chmod来改变文件的权限，为了能判断命令的返回值，最好写成：

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod 644 " + filename);    
int status = p.waitFor();    
if (status == 0) {    
    //chmod succeed    
} else {    
    //chmod failed    
}    

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openFileOutput 文件属性设置、主动配置文件的可读写属性及其实现方式

原文：http://blog.csdn.net/winceos/article/details/38364821