[cut from a off list thread between jhoblitt & nickg] >As a general comment, 36119 makes me a little nervous as 'chmod' isn't >something you can count on unless your on a POSIX like system and osname >ne 'MSWin32' certainly would encompass non-POSIX systems. Are you >planning on retool this patch to be more pedantic about platforms? > > I guess that I need to find out whether chmod dies with an error if it isn't supported, or silently continues. I'm hoping that it just silently continues so that we can leave it as it is. If the platform needs executes on the library, then this line should ensure that.
I would rather that we had an exception list of platforms for which it doesn't work. I think what's best is if I post to the list to ask if chmod dies if it is not supported.. Would you agree? Cheers, Nick
