1.3.2Class FileStat

Class holding informations on system files.

Class FileStat( [path] )
path If given, the filestats will be initialized with stats of the given file.
Raise
IoError if path is given but not found.

The FileStat class holds informations on a single directory entry.

It is possible to pass a path parameter, in which case, if the given file is found, the contents of this class is filled with the stat data from the required file, otherwise an IoError is raised. The FileStat.read method would search for the required file without raising in case it is not found, so if it preferable not to raise on failure (i.e. because searching the most fitting of a list of possibly existing files), it is possiblo to create the FileStat object without parameters and the use the read method iteratively.

Both access and attribs properties are given a value respectively only on POSIX or MS-Windows systems; their value is the underlying numeric value the system provides. The ctime property has a different meaning in MS-Windows and POSIX system. In the former, is the time at which the file has been created; in the latter is the time when the file ownership flags have been last changed, which may or may not be the same as file creation time.

Times are returned as a TimeStamp class instance; the time is always expressed as local system time.

Properties
access POSIX access mode
atime Last access time, expressed as a instance.
attribs DOS Attributes
ctime Creation time or last attribute change time, expressed as a instance.
ftypeType of the file.
group Group ID of the given file.
mtime Last modify time, expressed as a instance.
owner Owner ID of the given file.
size File size.
Methods
readFills the data in this instance reading them from a system file.

Properties

access

POSIX access mode

POSIX access mode

atime

Last access time, expressed as a instance.

Last access time, expressed as a TimeStamp instance.

attribs

DOS Attributes

DOS Attributes

ctime

Creation time or last attribute change time, expressed as a instance.

Creation time or last attribute change time, expressed as a TimeStamp instance.

ftype

Type of the file.

Can be one of the following constants (declared in this class):

- NORMAL

group

Group ID of the given file.

Group ID of the given file.

mtime

Last modify time, expressed as a instance.

Last modify time, expressed as a TimeStamp instance.

owner

Owner ID of the given file.

Owner ID of the given file.

size

File size.

File size.

Methods

read

Fills the data in this instance reading them from a system file.

FileStat.read( filename )
filename Relative or absolute path to a file for which stats must be read
ReturnTrue on success, false if the file cannot be queried.

Fills the contents of this object with informations on the given file. If the stats of the required file can be read, the function returns true.

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