Dan Sugalski wrote:OWNER_READ True if owner can read OWNER_WRITE True if owner can write OWNER_EXECUTE True if owner can run OWNER_DELETE True if owner can delete GROUP_CD True if owner can enter this directory
Is it possible to have something along the lines of ME_{READ,WRITE,EXECUTE,DELETE,CD} to say if, as the user the program is running as, you can perform these actions? That strikes me as rather useful. (Alternately, could we have a field indicating if the current user is OWNER, GROUP, SYSTEM, or OTHER to this file? Gives you pretty much the same info.)
Sure, that works, and I can see it being as useful as the other permission testing stuff. (Which, arguably, is actually really really useless, but that's a separate issue. We could, I suppose, unconditionally return 'true' for all of these...)
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