| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Adam Brightwell <adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: Configurable file mode mask |
| Date: | 2018-03-05 22:30:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20180305223005.GI2416@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Tom, all,
* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) 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.
>
> > 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.)
Agreed.
Thanks!
Stephen
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