Re: chmod not working on firewire drive

2005-04-25 Thread Kevin Michael Vail
e sudoed to no avail. Well, removing write permission is a-w... -- Kevin Michael Vail | a billion stars go spinning through the night, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blazing high above your head. . . . . . . . . . | But _in_ you is the presence that . . . . . . . . | will be, when all the stars are dead. . . . . . . . . . | (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Re: How to stat a symlink rather than its target dir?

2003-08-25 Thread Kevin Michael Vail
stat. For example, you can do something like this: if (-f $file) { ## do something here } elsif (-d _) { ## do something here } The -d operator uses the same stat buffer as the -f operation, without querying the file system again. This is documented in perldoc -f stat. -- Kevin

Re: DYLD_ALLOW_MULTISYMS

2002-12-17 Thread Kevin Michael Vail
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Michael Vail) wrote: > I *know* I'm missing something, I just don't know what. OK, thanks to Rick and Jerry for pointing out that what I was missing was the boat. ;-) I remembered too far back. DYLD_ALLOW_MULTISYMS

DYLD_ALLOW_MULTISYMS

2002-12-16 Thread Kevin Michael Vail
t that you don't need to (and should not!) download the hacked version of 'dyld' under Jaguar? Tk800.024, Perl 5.8.0. I *know* I'm missing something, I just don't know what. -- Kevin Michael Vail | Dogbert: That's circular reasoning. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dilbert: