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).

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