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From:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Date:
November 22, 2008 00:39
Subject:
Re: S16: chown, chmod
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F1CE9E38-7C22-480A-87E7-21D9A157963C@ece.cmu.edu
On 2008 Nov 21, at 13:20, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:57:30AM -0800, dpuu wrote:
> : On Nov 21, 9:16 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
> : > Please feel free to whack on the spec
> : The definition of C<chown> includes the statement that it's not
> : available on most system unless you're superuser; and this can be
> : checked using a POSIX incantation. I was wondering if it would be
> : reasonable to provide this as a method on the chown function, so
> that
This won't work; _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is per filesystem.
(_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is global but insufficient.)
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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