From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-05 09:17:33
Walter Landry wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have recently upgraded from 1.32 to the current prerelease, and it
> feels like filesystem is missing a few convenience functions.
>
> 1) readlink: There is a way to create a symlink, but then no way to
> query it later.
>
> 2) nlink: Similarly, we can create a hard link, but can not query
> its link count.
>
> 3) copy_symlink: Note that this requires readlink in order to
> function.
>
> 4) copy_directory: create_directory creates directories with the
> mode S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO. That seems like a security hole
> waiting to happen. This would at least provide a way of
> inheriting access properties.
>
> 5) copy(): This would check what the first argument is and invoke
> the appropriate function (copy_file, copy_symlink,
> copy_directory).
>
> Except for nlink, I have already implemented all of these functions
> because I needed them. Is there any interest in getting these
> functions into the filesystem library?
I'm interested, particularly if they can be portably implemented.
Thanks,
--Beman