Re: Discovering if a file is read-only

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 23:54, Murray Cumming wrote:
> I am examining GnomeVfsFileInfo::permissions on a GnomeVfsFileInfo that
> I got from gnome_vfs_get_file_info_from_handle() after opening the
> GnomeVfsUriHandle with gnome_vfs_open(), with the GNOME_VFS_OPEN_READ
> option.
> 
> When I use it on a local file that is not writable by the group, user,
> or others, it does not seem to set the GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_WRITABLE
> flag.
>  
> So, should I be able to use GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_WRITABLE to check
> whether the file is writable by the current user? Or do I need to use
> GNOME_VFS_PERM_USER_WRITE, GNOME_VFS_PERM_GROUP_WRITE,
> GNOME_VFS_PERM_OTHERS_WRITE and check whether the user is in the correct
> group?

Yes, that is the general idea. However you need to pass
GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_GET_ACCESS_RIGHTS to get_file_info in the options
parameter. Also, looking at the code this only seems to be implemented
for get_file_info, not get_file_info_from_handle(). I guess we need to
implement that.  

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