Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Quoting Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Tue, 12 Jun
2007 22:55:18 -0700):
Another simple question (I hope):
Is there any reason why shell commands should be used in place of a
C command (in this case chmod via vsystem instead of the chmod(2)
function)? It seems like the fork / exec would be more expensive with
the shell command, but any area where code could be optimized is more
than welcome I would think.
If it is just one file, I don't see the reason to use the shell
command, but if you need to reinvent "chmod -R", I don't see a reason
to forbid the use of the shell command (pragmatic programming).
Bye,
Alexander.
Exactly my thinking (ch{own,mod} for one file, not reinventing the
-R 'wheel'). After looking over style(7) I don't see anything about not
doing that.
Thanks for the reply :).
-Garrett
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