Walter Landry wrote:
Greetings,
I have recently upgraded from 1.32 to the current prerelease, and it feels like filesystem is missing a few convenience functions.
1) readlink: There is a way to create a symlink, but then no way to query it later.
2) nlink: Similarly, we can create a hard link, but can not query its link count.
3) copy_symlink: Note that this requires readlink in order to function.
4) copy_directory: create_directory creates directories with the mode S_IRWXU|S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO. That seems like a security hole waiting to happen. This would at least provide a way of inheriting access properties.
5) copy(): This would check what the first argument is and invoke the appropriate function (copy_file, copy_symlink, copy_directory).
Except for nlink, I have already implemented all of these functions because I needed them. Is there any interest in getting these functions into the filesystem library?
I'm interested, particularly if they can be portably implemented. Thanks, --Beman