On Sunday, 6 September 2015 at 23:05:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[...] which makes treating some of this stuff in a
cross-platform fashion quite difficult.
And even more with ACLs that it could be:
On windows, to know properly if something is readable or writable
the attributes are not enough. One should also check the ACL:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa446659(v=vs.85).aspx
For example you can retieve the flags:
archive/readonly/hidden/system/indexable(?) and even if it looks
writable or readable, the file won't be open at all because the
ACL for the file don't include the current user account.
