• Joseph (1/1) Sep 14 2017 Is there a cross-platform way in D to check if a path is writable?
• Neia Neutuladh (2/4) Sep 14 2017 Try to write to it and see if you get an error.
• Joseph (4/8) Sep 14 2017 Um, so I have to do this for every platform? I thought D was a
• Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn (4/14) Sep 14 2017 You can use https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#getAttributes, but yo...

Joseph <JE342 gmail.com> writes:

Is there a cross-platform way in D to check if a path is writable?

Neia Neutuladh <neia ikeran.org> writes:

On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 01:42:02 UTC, Joseph wrote:
 Is there a cross-platform way in D to check if a path is 
 writable?

Try to write to it and see if you get an error.

Joseph <JE342 gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 02:02:54 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
 On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 01:42:02 UTC, Joseph wrote:
 Is there a cross-platform way in D to check if a path is 
 writable?

 Try to write to it and see if you get an error.

Um, so I have to do this for every platform? I thought D was a 
systems language?

Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> writes:

You can use https://dlang.org/phobos/std_file.html#getAttributes, but you
still need to distinguish Windows and posix platforms

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Joseph via Digitalmars-d-learn <
digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> wrote:

 On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 02:02:54 UTC, Neia Neutuladh wrote:

 On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 01:42:02 UTC, Joseph wrote:

 Is there a cross-platform way in D to check if a path is writable?

 Try to write to it and see if you get an error.

 Um, so I have to do this for every platform? I thought D was a systems
 language?