They are inherently non-portable. And ACLs introduce a broad disparity.
Yes, win32 does capture X/R/W for U/G/W (G generally equals U) for files on WinNT and 2000. 9x has no permission model at all. We don't have a model yet for setting the perms, however. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sander Striker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 2:50 PM Subject: Re: File permision portability > On Friday 05 October 2001 12:24 pm, Sander Striker wrote: > > [deliberately crossposted] > > > > Hi all, > > > > Can someone give me a quick answer if file permissions > > are made portable in apr. Specifically, are ntfs acls > > mapped to the flags that show up in include/apr_file_info.h? > > Subversion needs to portably handle at least the execute and > > write permissions, which is my reason for asking. > > They aren't, but they need to be made portable. When I first wrote the > file perm code, I didn't have the patience, or the knowledge to do portable > perms across platforms, so I punted. If you want to take a stab, I am more > than > happy to help. > > Ryan > > ______________________________________________________________ > Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
