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reply "Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:
Are there any Phobos functions to check file permissions on 
Windows and Posix? For example, I want to check if a file is 
readable and/or writable in a cross-platform fashion. Does anyone 
have an example?
Sep 06 2015
next sibling parent reply Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn writes:
On Sunday, September 06, 2015 20:40:03 Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:

 Are there any Phobos functions to check file permissions on
 Windows and Posix? For example, I want to check if a file is
 readable and/or writable in a cross-platform fashion. Does anyone
 have an example?



file attributes for a file, though you'll have to look at the Windows and
POSIX documentation to know how to interpret that.


attributes in a cross-platform manner, but readability and writability
aren't among them (though its attributes property will give you the same
thing that getAttributes doe).

So, as it stands, it looks like if you want to check for readibility or
writability, you'd have to look at the OS documentation for each OS to see
how the attributes should be interpreted. So, while you don't have to deal
with the C APIs themselves for this, and the function call itself is
cross-platform, the result isn't, unfortunately. However, looking over the
windows documentation, I suspect that writability is the only attribute
which DirEntry doesn't have which could be done cross-platform but isn't.
The types of attributes that Windows has are drastically different from
those in *nix land, which makes treating some of this stuff in a
cross-platform fashion quite difficult.

- Jonathan M Davis
Sep 06 2015
next sibling parent "FreeSlave" <freeslave93 gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:05:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:


 you all of the file attributes for a file, though you'll have 
 to look at the Windows and POSIX documentation to know how to 
 interpret that.

 - Jonathan M Davis


It will give you attributes from owner's point of view (i.e. what 
owner can, what users in the same group can, and what all other 
users can)

Not sure if phobos has functions to check if file is readable or 
writable by current user. You can use access on Posix: 
http://linux.die.net/man/2/access
Sep 07 2015
prev sibling parent reply "BBasile" <bb.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:05:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:

 [...] which makes treating some of this stuff in a 
 cross-platform fashion quite difficult.


And even more with ACLs that it could be:

On windows, to know properly if something is readable or writable 
the attributes are not enough. One should also check the ACL:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa446659(v=vs.85).aspx

For example you can retieve the flags: 
archive/readonly/hidden/system/indexable(?) and even if it looks 
writable or readable, the file won't be open at all because the 
ACL for the file don't include the current user account.
Sep 07 2015
next sibling parent "Jay Norwood" <jayn prismnet.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 September 2015 at 15:48:56 UTC, BBasile wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:05:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
 For example you can retieve the flags: 
 archive/readonly/hidden/system/indexable(?) and even if it 
 looks writable or readable, the file won't be open at all 
 because the ACL for the file don't include the current user 
 account.


This guy enhanced the cross-platform fox toolkit capabilities.  
It would be worth looking at it if you intend to write something 
similar.

See the section 7. Superior provision of host OS facilities 
portably

http://tnfox.sourceforge.net/TnFOX/html/main.html
Sep 08 2015
prev sibling parent "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 7 September 2015 at 15:48:56 UTC, BBasile wrote:

 On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:05:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
 wrote:

 [...] which makes treating some of this stuff in a 
 cross-platform fashion quite difficult.


 And even more with ACLs that it could be:


Not to mention, Windows locks files that are open and the 
recommended way to handle that is to open the file and see if you 
get an error.
Sep 08 2015
prev sibling parent "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 20:40:04 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:

 Are there any Phobos functions to check file permissions on 
 Windows and Posix? For example, I want to check if a file is 
 readable and/or writable in a cross-platform fashion. Does 
 anyone have an example?


Call fopen and check errno?
Sep 07 2015