• Sean Campbell (3/3) Jul 26 2014 is there any way to detect if a file is a binary executable that
• John Colvin (8/11) Jul 27 2014 pipeProcess will throw a ProcessException if it can't start an

"Sean Campbell" <sycam.inc gmail.com> writes:

is there any way to detect if a file is a binary executable that 
is cross platform or a way to detect whether pipeprocss failed to 
execute a file if it wasn't executable.

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Saturday, 26 July 2014 at 15:24:01 UTC, Sean Campbell wrote:
 is there any way to detect if a file is a binary executable 
 that is cross platform or a way to detect whether pipeprocss 
 failed to execute a file if it wasn't executable.

pipeProcess will throw a ProcessException if it can't start an 
executable.

Checking the type of a file, permissions, availability of 
necessary shared libraries etc. can be checked with a variety of 
unix tools (file, ldd, stat). There are c functions for accessing 
this information which you can import from core.stdc
Don't know about Windows but I presume the same applies.