On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:58:28PM -0800, Ovod-Everett, Toby wrote: > I developed a module to make interacting with masks more pleasant (both generating > masks from a list of constants, breaking the mask back into constants, and > explaining the mask in terms of a minimal list of constants). It was originally > developed for use under Win32, so I named it Win32::MaskManipulation. I'd like to > release the code, but it occurs to me that there is nothing in it that is actually > dependent upon Win32 - the code is 100% Perl and the concepts and approach apply > equally well to any platform that uses constant masks that fit inside a Perl > integer. With that in mind, are there any suggestions for where it might fit > cleanly in the module hierarchy?
Data::BitMask perhaps. Tim. > Also, I'm working on a set of modules to be termed Win32::Security. I grew > frustrated with poorly-optimized or memory-leaking modules for doing work with > permissions under WinNT/2K/XP, so I started developing my own. I'm sticking to pure > Perl code, using Win32::API to do all of my API work. All of these modules > (Win32::Security::DACL, Win32::Security::File, Win32::Security::Raw, and > Win32::Security::SID) were developed to support a very useful utility for doing > permissions enumeration on Win2K/XP machines. It supports distinguishing between > inherited and explicit permissions, as well as detecting situations in which the > static permissions model has resulted in the inherited permission getting out of > whack. I'd really like to distribute the script with the module (since it serves > both as excellent sample code and as a useful utility), and if it were a Unix > module, I'd simply stick it in a Samples directory. The problem is that most Win32 > people use PPM to download modules, and that is only going to install code that goes > into the INST_LIBDIR. What I'm proposing is to stick PermEnum.pl into the > Win32\Security directory. I realize this isn't the proper way to do this, but it > would make the script available to people who have installed the module via PPM > without them having to go find the module on CPAN, find a copy of gunzip and tar, > etc. Thoughts? > > --Toby Ovod-Everett > TEVERETT > (wondering if this message will get rejected because my e-mail address has changed > and PAUSE seems to be down so I can't update things) >
