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Re: What would it take? (mintlibs)

To: Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com>
Subject: Re: What would it take? (mintlibs)
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 12 Jun 1998 11:20:10 +0200
Cc: MiNT mailing list <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
In-reply-to: Katherine L Ellis's message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:49:34 -0400 (EDT)"
References: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980610224734.5200B-100000@usr09.primenet.com>

Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com> writes:

|> Hi, I was porting some app, and hm a simple call wasn't there.
|> fchmod() that is.
|> What would it take to make fchmod() (unix)= Fchmod() (gemdos) that we
|> already have?

No.  MiNT Fchmod is UNIX chmod, which work on file names.  UNIX fchmod
works on a file descriptor, and AFAIK MiNT does not provide the needed
functionality (it would have to be implemented by a filesystem dependent
Fcntl handler).

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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