From pdalgd at gmail.com  Wed Aug 15 19:38:17 2012
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:38:17 +0200
Subject: [Rd] chown, chgrp?
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On Aug 15, 2012, at 17:56 , Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so I don't think it makes sense to add it at this point.
>> 
> 
> It does however raise the question, "What is Hadley up to now?" :)

Aiming for the fortune file again, Barry?

Anyways, since it is not portable anyway, what was ever wrong with 

system(sprintf("chown %s %s", foo, bar)

?

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[Rd] chown, chgrp?
peter dalgaard