Class containing the system information on a file path.

Inheritance:

Public Fields

FileTypes	type File type for this file.
PTime	created Time of file creation of the file.
PTime	modified Time of last modifiaction of the file
PTime	accessed Time of last access to the file.
PUInt64	size Size of the file in bytes.
int	permissions A bit mask of all the file acces permissions.
BOOL	hidden File is a hidden file.

Public Members

enum	FileTypes All types that a particular file path may be.
enum	Permissions File access permissions for the file

Inherited from PObject:

Public Methods

Run Time Type functions

I/O functions

Public Members

Comparison functions

Documentation

Class containing the system information on a file path. Information can be obtained on any directory entry event if it is not a "file" in the strictest sense. Sub-directories, devices etc may also have information retrieved.

enum FileTypes

All types that a particular file path may be. Not all platforms support all of the file types. For example under DOS no file may be of the type SymbolicLink.

RegularFile

Ordinary disk file

SymbolicLink

File path is a symbolic link

SubDirectory

File path is a sub-directory

CharDevice

File path is a character device name

BlockDevice

File path is a block device name

Fifo

File path is a fifo (pipe) device

SocketDevice

File path is a socket device

UnknownFileType

File path is of an unknown type

AllFiles

Mask for all file types

FileTypes type

File type for this file. Only one bit is set at a time here.

PTime created

Time of file creation of the file. Not all platforms support a separate creation time in which case the last modified time is returned.

PTime modified

Time of last modifiaction of the file

PTime accessed

Time of last access to the file. Not all platforms support a separate access time in which case the last modified time is returned.

PUInt64 size

Size of the file in bytes. This is a quadword or 8 byte value to allow for files greater than 4 gigabytes.

enum Permissions

File access permissions for the file

WorldExecute

File has world execute permission

WorldWrite

File has world write permission

WorldRead

File has world read permission

GroupExecute

File has group execute permission

GroupWrite

File has group write permission

GroupRead

File has group read permission

UserExecute

File has owner execute permission

UserWrite

File has owner write permission

UserRead

File has owner read permission

AllPermissions

All possible permissions

DefaultPerms

Owner read & write plus group and world read permissions

DefaultDirPerms

Owner read & write & execute plus group and world read & exectute permissions

int permissions

A bit mask of all the file acces permissions. See the Permissions enum for the possible bit values.

Not all platforms support all permissions.

BOOL hidden

File is a hidden file. What constitutes a hidden file is platform dependent, for example under unix it is a file beginning with a '.' character while under MS-DOS there is a file system attribute for it.

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