On 15/08/2012 18:38, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 17:56 , Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek
<simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and non-existence
of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I don't think it
makes sense to add it at this point.
It does however raise the question, "What is Hadley up to now?" :)
Aiming for the fortune file again, Barry?
Anyways, since it is not portable anyway, what was ever wrong with
system(sprintf("chown %s %s", foo, bar)
?
Yes, that is the point. I added Sys.chmod because R's own scripts needed
something portable (both to Windows, and later in the handling of umask
where POSIX allows some wiggle room). We've never needed chown/chgrp.
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