From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T02:58:19+09:00
Subject: [suggestion] File.chown to take user and group *names*

Just a simple suggestion, but it would be really nice if File.chown could
take user and group *names* as well as numeric IDs.

It would simplify this:

  File.chown(Etc.getpwnam("foo").uid, Etc.getgrnam("bar").gid, filename)

to this:

  File.chown("foo", "bar", filename)

Seem reasonable?? There doesn't seem to be a chown in fileutils.rb either.

Regards,

Brian.