On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 17:59, Andrew Barnert wrote:
Of course you _could_ implement that full spec yourself in Python, right? Well, read it. There are references to things "the implementation" may do, like providing a way for the administrator to disable sticky-bit checking for filesystems that don't support it. Do you know how to check whether the administrator has disabled sticky-bit checking on a filesystem?
A python implementation would be an independent implementation, and not bound by another implementation's (even on the same machine) implementation-specific decisions. There is therefore no reason the python implementation couldn't simply not provide such a method, and therefore any .Trash directory without the sticky bit set does not pass the checks, and all that will happen is .Trash-$uid gets used instead - no harm done.