Hi all, you see, its SAGA day in Amsterdam :-P The permission issue has been discussed a number of times during the phone calls and on the list, and it was a TODO item for me to draft an interface. Well, here is the first shot at it, without much details. before I go much further, feedback would be, as usual, welcome. Note that this interface might be in fact too simple, as it requires additional calls in the name space interface to allow stuff like: dir = directory (url); dir.set_permissions (U_READ, "file.secret.txt"); Right now the interface would only allow: dir d = directory (url); file f = d.open ("file.secret.txt"); f.set_permissions (U_READ); f.close (); and it seems in fact awkward to open a file just to set/get permissions. So, the real question I guess is: should it be an interafce at all, or shouldn't we just include it into the name space? Are (unix file like) permission of use elsewhere? Cheers, Andre. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andre Merzky | phon: +31 - 20 - 598 - 7759 | | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) | fax : +31 - 20 - 598 - 7653 | | Dept. of Computer Science | mail: merzky@cs.vu.nl | | De Boelelaan 1083a | www: http://www.merzky.net | | 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+