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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:46:04 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] file streams & metadata
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> 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).
>
> touch(), chmod(), etc. aren't "rarely" used. They are used in alomst any
> app, everywhere.

The key part of this reply was "these particular", as they are very
platform specific and useless in a generic stream wrapper
implementation.


-- 
Pierre

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