On 2008 Nov 21, at 13:20, Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:57:30AM -0800, dpuu wrote:
: On Nov 21, 9:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) wrote:
: > Please feel free to whack on the spec
: The definition of C<chown> includes the statement that it's not
: available on most system unless you're superuser; and this can be
: checked using a POSIX incantation. I was wondering if it would be
: reasonable to provide this as a method on the chown function, so
that
This won't work; _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is per filesystem.
(_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED is global but insufficient.)
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