From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-08T00:14:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Starter for 10: Changing owner/group of a symlink

Hi,

At Wed, 7 May 2003 23:31:49 +0900,
Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Both the class and instance File.chown methods seem to follow the link
> rather than affecting the link itself.
> 
> Is assume this jut calls chown(2). But I don't see an lchown
> equivalent (although there is an lstat)

In 1.8, File#lchown is available only if your platform supports
lchown(2).  Otherwise it raises NotImplementedError.

-- 
Nobu Nakada