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On 06/19/2014 08:05 AM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:18:06 PM UTC-7, Sean Middleditch wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Nevin Liber <ne...@eviloverlord.com
>     <javascript:>> wrote:
>      > On 19 June 2014 02:01, Sean Middleditch <se...@middleditch.us
>     <javascript:>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Clearly more than just `ls` that uses such a basic operation.
>      >
>      >
>      > Again I'll ask you:  what is the missing mapping from low level
>     OS API to
>      > Filesystem API?  Is it cross platform, and if not, how do you
>     implement it
>      > on other platforms?
>
>     Maybe I'm missing something, but `status()` tells you nothing about
>     whether a file is read-only that I can tell.
>
>
> What about the permissions() member of file_status?
>

imho, permissions() is quite useless. It only tells you what permissions 
the owner/groups/other have. But not who is the owner(...). It is like 
saying: "There is someone who has the keys to your car, but I don't know 
who it is."

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