On 18 December 2003 21:44 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I can add local symlinks > and hardlinks. I'll compute ownership out-of-band and compare it > to the test result though... I wouldn't want someone extracting > this as joebloe to fail because the uid wasn't root. :)
Another thing to bear in mind ... is this a Unix-like only module? If not, then symlinks will be a no go. Win32 doesn't support them, and I would imagine there are other OSs in the same position. Computing ownership on Win32 can be done via the Win32::LoginName(), Win32::NetAdmin::LocalGroupGetMembers() and Win32::NetAdmin::GroupGetMembers() functions if you wanted a separate Win32 test script, otherwise as soon as you start calling Unixy admin programs your distribution will likely get labelled (wrongly) under CPAN testing as 'NA' on other OSs. Barbie. -- Barbie (@missbarbell.co.uk) | Birmingham Perl Mongers | http://birmingham.pm.org/
