[Mono-list] Mono.Posix

[Robert Jordan]

On 02.02.2011 11:54, Steve Lessard wrote:
> I just wrote a simple command line tool using the Mono.Unix.Native namespace in
> the Mono.Posix assembly. This tool basically checks a file's permissions to see
> if the file is executable by any or all of user, group, other. It works great on
> my Mac.
>
> Windows is supposed to have a Posix compliant layer. Does Mono.Posix assembly
> work on Windows's Posix layer?

The Windows POSIX subsystem was discontinued almost 10 years ago.

Note that "Mono.Posix" is a misnomer because it is actually
containing Unix bindings. Some of them (those supported by
msvcrt) might work under Windows, but it's up to you to test
this.

Also, the "access/stat" functions are pretty limited under Windows,
because they don't consider ACLs. This is not optimal for
a tool with these goals:

> This tool basically checks a file's permissions to see
> if the file is executable by any or all of user, group, other


Robert