[development] files owned by uid, patch review request.

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Darrel O'Pry <dopry at thing.net>:


>> What if I want the files to get deleted when the node is deleted?
>> Would they still be deleted with the proposed patch?
>
> No. The file remains, but is disassociated from the node. There is no
> way to guarantee the file is not in use elsewhere on your site, or
> linked from an external site, so the file remains.
>
> It can be modified to do so, but being able to do it sanely will require
> the addition on drewish's modules column, or a hook delete for reference
> counting to make sure files are not in use elsewhere.
>

I haven't looked at the patch so forgive me if this is addressed.  
Would it be possible to make this a feature within the system settings? 
  Would it be possible to have a count of nodes using the file and if 
the node being deleted is the only one prompt for the user for file 
deletion?

Earnie