Am Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:12:37 -0800 schrieb Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>:
> On Saturday, December 28, 2013 06:54:53 Marco Leise wrote: > > For Phobos we need portable solutions. But it is also clear that > > std.file.setAttributes cannot be replaced to 100% by a portable > > solution. The question is: Does portable code _care_ about setting > > each possible chmod flag or Windows file attribute? Or are the use > > cases much more limited there, like making a file read-only or > > querying if it is a directory? > > We need to try hard to make Phobos cross-platform and portable, but some > stuff > just can't be, and std.file already has some functions which fall in that > category (e.g. anything symlink related or dealing with file times). And > having > a D wrapper around that functionality can make code much cleaner, so I'm all > for having a limited number of system-specific functions in std.file if > that's > what it takes to get the job done (and file permissions tend to fall in that > category). > > - Jonathan M Davis But SetFileAttributes doesn't set file permissions (except for "read-only")! Chmod does. If you want a D wrapper for POSIX chmod in std.file, it should be exactly that. For Windows you need to work with ACLs to change permissions. -- Marco
