[ruby-talk:6296] Re: lchown()/etc. and Unix syscall completeness

[e-mail] (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> And syscalls proposing are lchown and lchmod?

I've been thinking about this a bit. I'm wondering why it's a bad idea 
to introduce these via separate modules that extend File and friends.

That way, a program could check in one place to see if the environment 
in which it was running supported the calls it needed. The alternative 
would be to add checking to every call it makes, or to have Ruby take
some default action behind the scenes which might not be what the
programmer intended.

Dave (who's trying to keep the core of Ruby from growing too much ;-)