Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:07:22PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:32:47AM +, Ohad Ohad wrote: > > > 3. What's the status of adding lchown to POSIX ?  > > I suppose it's just waiting for someone to do it. It doesn't look too > complicated. If someone produces a reaso

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-16 Thread Ohad Ohad
e boss gets mad cause' he not know what "Perl" even means, then 'he' goes home . . Ein avada, ein safa, kashe kashe :) From: Kenton Brede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: chown-ing symlink Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:14:04 -0600 On Mon, Mar

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-15 Thread Kenton Brede
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:57:08PM -0800, John W. Krahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Wiggins D'Anconia wrote: > > > > What is the OP really doing? Why the need to change the ownership of a > > link, and why wasn't it created with the "correct" ownership to begin with? > > The ownership on a syml

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Wiggins D'Anconia wrote: > > What is the OP really doing? Why the need to change the ownership of a > link, and why wasn't it created with the "correct" ownership to begin with? The ownership on a symlink should be irrelevant because the permissions are set to rwxrwxrwx by default. Just to spec

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:32:47AM +, Ohad Ohad wrote: > Ugh. Could you please try and persuade hotmail not to do that? > 3. What's the status of adding lchown to POSIX ?  I suppose it's just waiting for someone to do it. It doesn't look too complicated. If someone produces a reasonable

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-14 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:20:21PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Ohad Ohad wrote: chown seems to be able only to follow links and change the destination. Anyway to change the link itself, I wouldn't want to run system("chown -h $file") . . . I'm using various unix machin

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:20:21PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Ohad Ohad wrote: > >chown seems to be able only to follow links and change the destination. > > > >Anyway to change the link itself, I wouldn't want to run system("chown > >-h $file") . . . > > > >I'm using various unix machine

Re: chown-ing symlink

2004-03-14 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Ohad Ohad wrote: chown seems to be able only to follow links and change the destination. Anyway to change the link itself, I wouldn't want to run system("chown -h $file") . . . I'm using various unix machine (Linux, SunOs etc.) Remove the link and re-create it. perldoc -f unlink perldoc -f sym

chown-ing symlink

2004-03-12 Thread Ohad Ohad
chown seems to be able only to follow links and change the destination. Anyway to change the link itself, I wouldn't want to run system("chown -h $file") . . . I'm using various unix machine (Linux, SunOs etc.) _ Tired of spam? Get