[news.eclipse.tools] Re: file permissions (QNX, MacOs and other)

[Christophe Elek <celek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Arthorne <john_arthorne@xxxxxxxx> wrote in news:3D8108D1.10907
@o_ti.com:

> We're just trying to avoid more natives creeping into core.  Currently, 
> we're 99% pure java, with only a small, optional native for getting and 
> setting file timestamps.  This was done as an optimization, on Windows 
> and Linux only.  It's a lot of work to create and support libraries on 
> all platforms that Eclipse ships on, so we'd like to avoid it if 
> possible.  What we'd really be doing is patching the weaknesses of the 
> java class libraries, which could become a slippery slope.
> -

Understood,
nevertheless, somebody willhave to do it until file permission is in the 
classlibrary. So my question still stands in any cases: 
Does anyone know about file permission in other OS than **ix ? (hum , or 
point me to the doc of other OSes ;-)

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Christophe Elek
Eclipse Project
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