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(changing the subject line to ensure any followups are attached to the ticket) On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 01:08:55PM +0000, Zefram wrote: > Dave Mitchell wrote: > >and I want to change it to > > > > chmod 0666, $file unless -l $file; > > unlink $file; > > That wouldn't be correct: it still screws up on hard links. Long-standing > problem [perl #72028]. Yes, that's the ticket I'm looking at fixing. But thinking a little further, it makes no sense (on UNIXy systems at least) to do the chmod before unlinking a file, since it's the permissions of the directory, not the file, that determine whether a file can be unlinked. So I guess the chmod 066 is only for Windows etc? Do platforms like that emulate chmod, and does such a chmod help delete a file that been previously installed 0444 or equivalent? I think I'm a bit out of my depth on such portability issues, and I think I'll stop working on this ticket. -- Monto Blanco... scorchio!Thread Previous | Thread Next