The bool return value is true in case Lchown was used and false otherwise
This interface will most likely somehow require the Lstater interface to be implemented as well, as it's easiest to check whether the target path is a symlink and then decide based on that information whethe rto use LchownIfPossible or simply Chown
The Lstater interface implementation is not necessary for the OsFs but might be useful for other purposes down the line.
My use case is:
Installer that runs as root in order to create a software setup
Daemon that runs as technical user that should own all of the software written by the installer.
Discussion topics:
Is this interface added to the Symlinker interface?
Special error types needed?
...
Looking at the other symlink related methods, the following interface seems to be the better option in addition to a custom PathError that is returned in case that the underlying implementation does not support this interface.
Changing the owner of symlinks seems pretty useful to me.
I'd suggest the following method signature, same as LstatIfPossible.
The
bool
return value istrue
in caseLchown
was used andfalse
otherwise This interface will most likely somehow require theLstater
interface to be implemented as well, as it's easiest to check whether the target path is a symlink and then decide based on that information whethe rto useLchownIfPossible
or simplyChown
The
Lstater
interface implementation is not necessary for theOsFs
but might be useful for other purposes down the line.My use case is:
Discussion topics:
Looking at the other symlink related methods, the following interface seems to be the better option in addition to a custom PathError that is returned in case that the underlying implementation does not support this interface.