OpenEuphoria

Re: Enhanced dir() function

• Posted by Shawn Pringle <shawn.pringle at gmail.?o?> May 01, 2008
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Marco Achury wrote:
> 

> 
> Linux users currently only get info about 'd' attrib,
> they would like to get a unix style chmod sequence like:
> 
> "drwxr-x---" 
> 
> In this case the position of the char changes the sense.

The character
'r' is documented as readonly in the dir() documentation.  It would be trivial
to give 'r' to the Linux community by testing if the current process has write 
access.  It leads to cleaner looking code for dir() to provide the same
interface
regardless of platform.

On the other hand, if you name your function to something new like
folder_list(),
then you can design any interface you like and you can set positional flags that
are peclular to all the filesystems you will likely use: ext2, vfat, ntfs, and 
reiser. 

Shawn Pringle