On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Parrot Raiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the capability provided by Perl 5's "stat". Would a clone with > the same properties and behaviours be the right thing, or are there > "features" to fix? Same features, probably. It is just one of those things that is poorly portable to Windows, so doesn't belong in the core. There should also be a corresponding Windows module that matches Windows APIs instead of trying to force it to look like Unix (which is what perl 5 does). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
