wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php:263Changes filesystem permissions.
$filestring$modeint|falseoptionalfalse$recursivebooloptionalfalsebool public function chmod( $file, $mode = false, $recursive = false ) { if ( ! $mode ) { if ( $this->is_file( $file ) ) { $mode = FS_CHMOD_FILE; } elseif ( $this->is_dir( $file ) ) { $mode = FS_CHMOD_DIR; } else { return false; } } // chmod any sub-objects if recursive. if ( $recursive && $this->is_dir( $file ) ) { $filelist = $this->dirlist( $file ); foreach ( (array) $filelist as $filename => $filemeta ) { $this->chmod( $file . '/' . $filename, $mode, $recursive ); } } // chmod the file or directory. if ( ! function_exists( 'ftp_chmod' ) ) { return (bool) ftp_site( $this->link, sprintf( 'CHMOD %o %s', $mode, $file ) ); } return (bool) ftp_chmod( $this->link, $mode, $file ); }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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