in reply to "missing" perl routines

For setgroups see GID in perlvar. If lchmod (UPDATE: yup) is what I think it is it's nearly pointless no? The permissions on the destination conrtol acccess.

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Re: Re: "missing" perl routines
by kschwab (Vicar) on Aug 03, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
    As for lchmod, yes, I see your point. But what if I were trying to rewrite something like tar ? It wouldn't matter a lot, but it wouldn't work just like the C implementation.
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      Then you would write a module in C to implement lchmod, and use it in your program.
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