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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2013-05-22 10:36:55 (GMT)
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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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+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
diff --git a/doc/file.n b/doc/file.n
index eef4647..0b0ee9d 100644
--- a/doc/file.n
+++ b/doc/file.n
@@ -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