Am 18.03.2011 10:53, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
explain.
An example, please?
While the others already sent you the correct solution
("ForceDirectories") I just wanted to note, that FPC abstracts all those
file and directory related functions for you. There are for example the
very low level functions mkdir and rmdir that are part of the System unit.
See here: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/mkdir.html
Then there are the functions defined in SysUtils like CreateDir,
ForceDirectories and RemoveDir.
Note that for some cases, security aware programs (CGI, daemons), you have
to be a bit more careful. A known dangerous case is stuff like
forcedirectories on directory hierarchies where you don't have read
permissions (but you do have "x" permissions) on all levels.
Outch... That could indeed be dangerous.
And recent Delphi versions also include a higher level by introducing
advanced record types that handle all this:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/IOUtils.TDirectory
Fashion, not function. .NET has everything organized in static classes, and
embacadero wants to look more modern.
They also want the language to look more like .NET (e.g. the attributes
syntax). *sigh* (or in other words: they take the cheap way by reusing
the Delphi.NET parser...)
I wouldn't call this higher level. It is the same level just in OOP style.
Ok... fine as well. :)
Regards,
Sven
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