I suggest you actually spend the time to read and understand the responses you're given to your questions, including your previous questions. This thread started out without you asking a question, simply stating some facts. From this and previous questions you've posted I don't believe you understand the systems/technology you're working with.

Well...Obviously I'm a novice at perl. I had an assumption that perl could be portable across various OS - but apparently not that easily. I'm not asking anyone to implement anything...but help with providing an alternative solution.

I had an assumption that perl could be portable across various OS - but apparently not that easily.

Right. Perl was written on Unix systems and tries really hard to provide that interface even on other systems. But Windows really sucks at being a Unix. ;-) Your best best may be one of the modules with Win32 in its name. To find the name of a files owner, you need to call a different function on Windows.

See also perlport and the links at the end of that document.

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

You need to be careful with certain OS specific functions, this does not only apply for Perl. I advised using Super Search or google, you'd have arrived at potential solutions earlier:

• Win32::FileSecurity
• getpwuid / Getting the file owner on Win32
• Win32::Perms for ActivePerl 5.12/5.10 x64
• and many more