On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:10 AM, steve donovan <[email protected]> wrote: > As an amphibious person, I would think of a way to do it in a > cross-platform way, which is hard since Windows works differently. > > Yes, I have missed those file permissions, particularly simple things > like 'executable?'. No such concept in Windows - it's executable in > the command-line/shell if the extension is found in the PATHEXT > variable. > > So the question is whether lfs should provide extra functionality on > POSIX systems in this case. > > BTW, would be nice to have more general symlink functionality, since > Windows has hard links and soft links to directories (called > 'junctions')
Since LuaFileSystem already have some attributes marked as "Unix Only", I see no problem in keeping doing this with more of them. Maybe it would be better if we had put them all into a "posix" subtable, but I don't think it is worth changing this now. André _______________________________________________ Kepler-Project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project http://www.keplerproject.org/
