<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Pharo uses them. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Posix permissions are useful for both linux and mac. <div class="">Windows uses also the posix permissions that came with MinGW… I do not think they are useful but we provide them anyway :)</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Esteban</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ps: I do not know what are you doing there guys, but you broke my builds (I’m taking a look at them now) :P</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Sep 2015, at 09:24, Nicolai Hess <<a href="mailto:nicolaihess@web.de" class="">nicolaihess@web.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-09-15 4:11 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com" target="_blank" class="">btc@openinworld.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br class="">
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Nicolai Hess <<a href="mailto:nicolaihess@web.de" class="">nicolaihess@web.de</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> 2015-09-10 21:31 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com" class="">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="">
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>> I'm a bit concerned that this is creating drift with the "official" Cog source base at <a href="http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog</a>. Long filename support for win32 was recently added by Marcel Taumel in May of this year. Are you tracking that? How can we keep the sources harmonized?<br class="">
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> Ok, I removed all of my code again and merged with sqWin32Directory.c and sqWin32FilePrims.c from the official cog source.<br class="">
> I left only pharos additions for the fileattributes (posixpermissions) this should make it easier to merge which the<br class="">
> squeak vm main branch (wrapped with pharo vm ifdefs).<br class="">
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</span>What is the purpose of fileattributes? In the interests of further<br class="">
minimising drift, is this useful to Squeak?<br class="">
cheers -ben<br class="">
</blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't know, I don't think we use it at all. And for the different platforms, the permission attributes<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">doesn't really *are the same*. For example, the read/write permissions we are showing for<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">win32 platform, don't have much to do with win32 access restrictions - Idon't know about macos.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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