Re: adding new info to GnomeVFSFileInfo

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 00:44, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > +	GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_READABLE   = 1 << 16,
> > > +	GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_WRITEABLE  = 1 << 17,
> > > +	GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_EXECUTABLE = 1 << 18
> > 
> > I think its a good idea to put these flags above the space used by POSIX
> > in case we want to support flags like SUID in the future. I was a little
> > concerned that the GnomeVFSFilePermissions might change size, but it
> > doesn't look like it will on Linux/x86 or Solaris/sparc. Does anyone
> > know of a platform we support that this will break on?
> 
> What is "above the space used by POSIX" ? Is it enough to put them at
> bits 16 17 and 18, or would you like them to be "higher" ? (I put them
> there because I didn't know exactly which bits were used).