From: ogilthorpe@...
Date: 2005-10-03T01:56:36+09:00
Subject: Re: chmod on Windoze

> James Britt wrote:
>
>> I'd venture to guess that if someone is looking is looking for help with
>> some tool or application or OS, using /. script-kiddie slang, such as
>> "Windoze", or beginning a request for help by knocking the subject
>> matter,
>> is probably not the best way to encourage those who may know the answer
>> to
>> pitch in.
>
> So "you asked a stupid question, so you deserve to get flamed". Okay.
>
> (For those curious about the actual topics, 0444 and 0644 started working,
> so I don't know why historically they did not for me. And CreateProcess()
> and fork() are sufficiently different that one should not be expected to
> emulate the other...)
>
> --
>   Phlip
>   http://www.greencheese.org/ZeekLand  <-- NOT a blog!!!

But really though, thanks Daniel for your prompt, accurate (to the best of
_my_ knowledge) and sincere answer to a question that is difficult to ask
correctly, nevermind answer.

Can we flesh this out just a little bit more though?  The impression that
I've always gotten is that it isn't really possible to map across from the
Unix permission mechanism to the one implemented on Windows.  The bits
that you set when you chmod something don't really translate directly into
some of the more complex permissions that you can set on Windows systems,
right?

So I don't think that Ruby (or anybody else) can hope to have a permission
handling aspect that is both cross-platform and correct.  Am I wrong?