I am using tomcat 4.0.3 to run my application. In my application, I am storing some file in certain directory. I need to delete these files if it grows older then 5 days or it grows more thrn 5MB.



In my application, I am setting

new FilePermission(path, "read") to set the permission of this file. Everytime, I decide to delete the file, I do following


SecurityManager sm = System.getSecurityManager();

try{

sm.checkDelete(path);

new File(path).delete();

}catch(SecurityException se)

System.out.println("you are not allowed to delte the file");

}



this is expected behaviour. But after then when file meets my criteria to be deleted, I am doing following:


new FilePermission(path, "delete");



so, now the file must be able to be deleted when I trying to checkDelete() and trying to delete.



It seems like new file permission are not being set to the same file again.


Any clue any one ?


Thanks.