Previously Adam Heath wrote:
> Why not have it interpet the symbolic permissions?

No reason at all. More work, little gain.

> For the nlist support, I have already copied a file from fileutils.  Why not
> copy the library file that interpets symbolic permissions?

I really do not like the idea of symbolic permissions in nlist. It makes
the code a lot slower for no good reason at all (and in fact can hurt us
since it makes things less portable).

Wichert.


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