Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask

On 3/5/18 8:03 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 05:11:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> writes:
>>> On 2/28/18 2:28 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>> That's basically a recursive chmod, so chmod_recursive is more adapted?
>>>> I could imagine that this is useful as well for removing group
>>>> permissions, so the new mode could be specified as an argument.
>>
>>> The required package (File::chmod::Recursive) for chmod_recursive is not
>>> in use anywhere else and was not installed when I installed build
>>> dependencies.
>
> Woah. I didn't even know that chmod_recursive existed and was part of a
> module. What I commented about here was to rename to a more generic
> name the routine you are implementing so as other tests could use it.

OK, that is pretty funny. I thought you were directing me to a Perl
function I hadn't heard of (but did exist).

>>> I'm not sure what the protocol for introducing a new Perl module is? I
>>> couldn't find packages for the major OSes. Are we OK with using CPAN?
>>
>> I don't think that's cool. Anything that's not part of a standard Perl
>> installation is a bit of a lift already, and if it's not packaged by
>> major distros then it's really a problem for many people. (Yeah, they
>> may know what CPAN is, but they might have local policy issues about
>> installing directly from there.)
>
> Yes, that's not cool. I am not pushing in this direction. Sorry for
> creating confusion with fuzzy wording.
No worries, I'll just make it more generic as suggested.

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-David
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