--- On Tue, 8/17/10, I wrote before my first mug of coffee: > --- On Tue, 8/17/10, Andre Garzia > <an...@andregarzia.com> > wrote: > > > > Why not use shell("stat <the file>") to acquire > the > > information? > > > > > > Hi Andre, > > It looks like "stat" has the advantage over "ls -l" when it > comes to displaying the complete user and group name - my > user name is "janschenkel" which is cut down to 8 characters > using "ls -l" so that's not a workable solution. > > The reason to avoid a shell call to stat is simple: calling > it for each individual file in a big folder could prove an > expensive operation, while a simple mapping method should > suffice to convert 501 to "janschenkel" when you're already > using the detailed files. >
Thinking it over, we could build a caching mechanism and only fall back to "stat" if we don't have the id in our cache already. Poirot shall investigate :-) Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution