* dpuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-24 00:40]:
> I agree that the specific example of &chown.is_restricted is a
> bad idea, but only because the POSIX API I was wrapping is
> itself flawed.
It is not flawed in the least, as far as the aspect we are
talking about is concerned. (It is generally sane
On 2008 Nov 23, at 18:35, dpuu wrote:
On Nov 23, 2:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aristotle Pagaltzis) wrote:
The API you propose does not seem to me to shorten code at all
and is likely to lead to problematic code, so it seems like a
bad idea. Interfaces should be designed to encourage people to
do
On Nov 23, 2:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aristotle Pagaltzis) wrote:
> The API you propose does not seem to me to shorten code at all
> and is likely to lead to problematic code, so it seems like a
> bad idea. Interfaces should be designed to encourage people to
> do things correctly and to make it h
* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 23:55]:
> Any you could even do it in parallel:
>
> my @status = hyper map { .io.chmod($mode) }, @files
>
> though it's possible your sysadmin will complain about what
> you're doing with the disk drive heads. :)
Actually I/O subsystems are smart e
* dpuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 19:00]:
> The definition of C includes the statement that it's not
> available on most system unless you're superuser; and this can
> be checked using a POSIX incantation. I was wondering if it
> would be reasonable to provide this as a method on the chown
> f
