[Rd] chown, chgrp?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 15/08/2012 18:38, peter dalgaard wrote:
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> On Aug 15, 2012, at 17:56 , Barry Rowlingson wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek
>> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
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>>>
>>> ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I don't think it makes sense to add it at this point.
>>>
>>
>> It does however raise the question, "What is Hadley up to now?" :)
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> Aiming for the fortune file again, Barry?
>
> Anyways, since it is not portable anyway, what was ever wrong with
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> system(sprintf("chown %s %s", foo, bar)
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> ?

Yes, that is the point. I added Sys.chmod because R's own scripts needed 
something portable (both to Windows, and later in the handling of umask 
where POSIX allows some wiggle room).  We've never needed chown/chgrp.


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