Re: [RFC] Dealing with World-writable Files in the Archive of CPAN Distributions

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Eric Wilhelm
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Would that "tracks-covering chmod" not require *ownership* of the file?

According to the man page for chmod(1), yes, but on Win32 doesn't a
world-writable file mean it's world-replaceable too?

In any case, I was also trying to point out that if the top-level
directory is expanded as world-writable, then any file therein (e.g.
Build.PL) is world-replaceable.  So that's just another thing to check
for.

 -Ken