rmdirRecurse vs readonly

Lemonfiend lemon at fie.nd
Wed Dec 25 01:20:49 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 24 December 2013 at 16:11:15 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 12/24/2013 04:13 AM, Lemonfiend wrote:
>> std.file.rmdirRecurse refuses to remove readonly files.
>>
>> How would I go about deleting them anyway?
>
> Call std.file.setAttributes() first, which has apparently been 
> added just three days ago: :)
>
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/file.d#L971
>
> If you can't work with git head version of dmd, then do what it 
> does yourself, depending on your platform:
>
> void setAttributes(in char[] name, uint attributes)
> {
>     version (Windows)
>     {
>         cenforce(SetFileAttributesW(std.utf.toUTF16z(name), 
> attributes), name);
>     }
>     else version (Posix)
>     {
>         assert(attributes <= mode_t.max);
>         cenforce(!chmod(toStringz(name), 
> cast(mode_t)attributes), name);
>     }
> }
>
> For example, if you are on Linux:
>
> import core.sys.posix.sys.stat;
> import std.conv;
>
> // ...
>
>     chmod("/my/file", cast(mode_t)octal!777)
>
> Ali

Haha, how very timely.

Thanks! And merry xmas :)


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