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| author | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2013-05-22 10:36:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2013-05-22 10:36:55 (GMT) |
| commit | 6ede2e9a9c11a27ad6be06a3eceda2f98be8f8d5 (patch) | |
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* doc/file.n: [Bug 3613671]: Added note to portability section on the
fact that [file owned] does not produce useful results on Windows.
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2013-05-22 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> + + * doc/file.n: [Bug 3613671]: Added note to portability section on the + fact that [file owned] does not produce useful results on Windows. + 2013-05-20 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net> * unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (DefaultTempDir): [Bug 3613567]: Corrected logic @@ -481,6 +481,13 @@ Returns \fB1\fR if file \fIname\fR is writable by the current user, . These commands always operate using the real user and group identifiers, not the effective ones. +.TP +\fBWindows\fR\0\0\0\0 +. +The \fbfile owned\fR subcommand currently always reports that the current user +is the owner of the file, without regard for what the operating system +believes to be true, making an ownership test useless. This issue (#3613671) +may be fixed in a future release of Tcl. .SH EXAMPLES .PP This procedure shows how to search for C files in a given directory |