Reading the access attributes of directories in Windows

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 05:07, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <mailman.99.1282894128.29448.python-list at python.org>, Rami
> Chowdhury wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>
>>> In message <pan.2010.08.22.04.26.33.547000 at nowhere.com>, Nobody wrote:
>>>
>>>> Having this as a separate permission allows normal users to add entries
>>>> to log files but not to erase existing entries.
>>>
>>> Unix/Linux systems can do this already.
>>
>> Ooh, I didn't know that -- what combination of permissions would I
>> have to use to get such an effect?
>
> No special permissions needed at all—just use the syslog(3) functions.
>
> And the nice thing is, you don’t have to know whether the system logs are
> kept on the local machine or on a remote machine, or how different
> categories of messages are divided up into different files, how log rotation
> is done, or anything like that—it’s all transparent.

Ah, thanks -- I think I'd misread your first post as indicating that
that kind of "append" effect would work for any file. Apologies for
the misunderstanding!

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Rami Chowdhury
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