Re: why sfio isn't perfect for PerlIO

2000-10-19 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > FWIW, the last time I tried (which was quite a while ago) sfio didn't build > on VMS. That may have changed, though. Neither would perl5, without the on-going dedicated efforts of the VMS perl community. If sfio pretty much does what we want, then our

[TODO] fchmod, fchown, futimes

2000-10-19 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
(I'll pick a few items from the Todo lists once in a while to remind people and hopefully get someone interested enough to implement them) It would be convenient and more secure if one could in Perl apply chmod()/chown()/utime() also for FILEHANDLES, instead of just for filenames. This is possi