From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-11-13T02:18:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6294] Re: lchown()/etc. and Unix syscall completeness

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:6288] lchown()/etc. and Unix syscall completeness"
    on 00/11/12, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|Ruby as it is now isn't very consistent with the system calls it provides.  

In fact, POSIX.1 is inconsistent.  sigh.

|Many system call wrappers are provided, indeed most of the ones that I need.
|For example, I need File.stat, and I also need File.lstat; they're both 
|there.  But other useful ones are missing.  File.chmod and File.chown are 
|there, but the l-prefixed syscalls like File.lchmod and File.lchown are
|missing.

Because I'm not omniscient, of course, there should be the things like
this time to time.  It tends to be slow to introduce non-POSIX system
calls, but I don't mean I say no to them.  Even fchown is not among
POSIX.1.  Anyway I ask you (and others) to provide enough information
for me to decide how should I (Ruby) handle each of these syscalls on
the platforms where they are not available.

And syscalls proposing are lchown and lchmod?

							matz.