Re: Advice on : rmdirRecurse and setAttributes in Windows

[WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 18:39:02 UTC, Vino wrote:

Hi All,

  The function rmdirRecurse does not work in Windows if the 
file has the READ ONLY permission, so to over come this issue, 
i have written the below function to set the permission on file 
and folder using the function "setAttributes" , so can any one 
advice me whether the below code is fine or what are the other 
ways to achieve the same.



auto aPrivileges(T)(T df)
if(df[0].isDir) {
auto sDir = Array!string(dirEntries(join([`\\?\`, 
df[0]]), SpanMode.depth).filter!(a => a.isDir).map!(a => 
(a.name)));
auto sFile = Array!string(dirEntries(join([`\\?\`, 
df[0]]), SpanMode.depth).filter!(a => a.isFile).map!(a => 
(a.name)));
foreach(sD; parallel(sDir[], 1)) { 
setAttributes(sD.toUTF16, 66); }
foreach(sF; parallel(sFile[], 1)) { 
setAttributes(sF.toUTF16, 666); }

}
else { setAttributes(df[0].toUTF16, 666); }
}

From,
Vino.B


This seems very hacky, you should instead just replicate the 
behaviour of rmdirRecurse. This is what I did in the dub library 
which does this thing for you: 
https://github.com/WebFreak001/rm-rf/blob/master/source/rm/rf.d

Advice on : rmdirRecurse and setAttributes in Windows

[Vino via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hi All,

  The function rmdirRecurse does not work in Windows if the file 
has the READ ONLY permission, so to over come this issue, i have 
written the below function to set the permission on file and 
folder using the function "setAttributes" , so can any one advice 
me whether the below code is fine or what are the other ways to 
achieve the same.



auto aPrivileges(T)(T df)
if(df[0].isDir) {
auto sDir = Array!string(dirEntries(join([`\\?\`, 
df[0]]), SpanMode.depth).filter!(a => a.isDir).map!(a => 
(a.name)));
auto sFile = Array!string(dirEntries(join([`\\?\`, 
df[0]]), SpanMode.depth).filter!(a => a.isFile).map!(a => 
(a.name)));
foreach(sD; parallel(sDir[], 1)) { 
setAttributes(sD.toUTF16, 66); }
foreach(sF; parallel(sFile[], 1)) { 
setAttributes(sF.toUTF16, 666); }

}
else { setAttributes(df[0].toUTF16, 666); }
}

From,
Vino.B