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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:34:43 +0100
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To: Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] file streams & metadata
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> But what about getting the metadata (as opposed to setting it)? I understand
> reading most of this stuff is already covered by the stat handler, but what
> about for example NTFS/POSIX ACLs or reading reparse point data? It would be
> nice to have a way to retrieve them. One might as well add two handlers.

I would prefer to have these particular getters (and maybe ever
setters) somewhere else, like in a derivated SplFile. That would give
us more flexibility and cleaner APIs fro something that does not
really fit in default streams anyway (or rarely).

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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