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[Philip J. <pj...@gr...>]

Charles Nutter has made some major headway on implementing chmod/ 
chown on JRuby (and that's just the beginning) via JNA's trunk build:

http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/09/java-native-access-jruby-true- 
posix.html

JNA could let Jython implement a full suite of POSIX functions (like  
Finn Bock's jnios or jtux), but without the headaches of JNI/ 
compiling native code. JNA appears to "just work" out of the box for  
the most popular platforms (win32, osx, linux, solaris, freebsd), so  
we could include this potential suite with our normal Jython  
distribution, by just shipping it with the JNA jar.

It's licensed under the LGPL. That sounds compatible enough; would  
the Jython/PSF lawyers approve? =]

--
Philip Jenvey