On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, S.A. Birl wrote: > I could use backticks `` to call cacls.exe inside of Perl But there's > a problem using cacls.exe, I cannot wipe out all permissions on a > given directory. I need to know the user/group. > > Is there another .exe? If so, email off-line as this goes outside of > Perl and I dont want to fill up the PERL list with non-Perl stuff.
Actually, it would be interesting to keep this on list, as long as it doesn't go *too* far astray. This is a problem that a lot of Windows users may want to address sooner or later, and if Perl can't do it then there might as well be a note in the archives saying what did work. I always thought it was weird that the chmod() / chown() etc functions didn't get rigged to Do The Right Thing on Windows. Really, you shouldn't have to learn a new permissions API when Perl already has a perfectly good one that works for *nix (Linux, Solaris, OSX, etc) and seems like it would correlate tolerably well onto Windows systems. Heck, if Cygwin can weld it on there, why not Perl? :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
