Implement more general file ownership functions #7090
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Original bug ID: 7090
Reporter: @Chris00
Status: acknowledged (set by @damiendoligez on 2017-04-13T11:15:00Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: low
Severity: feature
Category: otherlibs
Monitored by: @Chris00
Bug description
On Windows, there are many alternatives¹ for xhown (I haven't investigated further but they clearly indicate that a syscall must exist). Maybe it would make sense to have "higher level" functions that set ownership for named users (using pwd.h on the Unix side)?
¹ https://serverfault.com/questions/27332/how-to-take-ownership-of-files-from-the-command-line
Additional information
See #349
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