Re: RFD: deprecate permissions-related stuff in System.Directory

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Simon Marlow wrote:

I propose to deprecate all this, in favour of using platform-specific functionality instead. Here's why:

* Most uses of `getPermissions` are wrong. If you use `getPermissions` to predict whether a future operation will fail or not, then the right thing to do is to perform the operation and catch the failure exception.

very true

These functions are hardly ever used. I did a Google code search for setPermissions and aside from implementations of setPermissions itself and tests for it, I came up with:

I used setting of permissions for 'install' like commands. E.g., I generated some HTML and wrote it to some place where it must be accessed by the werb server.