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diff --git a/tcl/doc/Access.3 b/tcl/doc/Access.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ae68cb9e6a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/tcl/doc/Access.3 @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +'\" +'\" Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Scriptics Corportation +'\" +'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution +'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. +'\" +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id$ +'\" +.so man.macros +.TH Tcl_Access 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" +.BS +.SH NAME +Tcl_Access, Tcl_Stat \- check file permissions and other attributes +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +\fB#include <tcl.h>\fR +.sp +int +\fBTcl_Access\fR(\fIpath\fR, \fImode\fR) +.sp +int +\fBTcl_Stat\fR(\fIpath\fR, \fIstatPtr\fR) +.SH ARGUMENTS +.AS stat *statPtr in +.AP char *path in +Native name of the file to check the attributes of. +.AP int mode in +Mask consisting of one or more of R_OK, W_OK, X_OK and F_OK. R_OK, +W_OK and X_OK request checking whether the file exists and has read, +write and execute permissions, respectively. F_OK just requests +checking for the existence of the file. +.AP stat *statPtr out +The structure that contains the result. +.BE + +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +There are two reasons for calling \fBTcl_Access\fR and \fBTcl_Stat\fR +rather than calling system level functions \fBaccess\fR and \fBstat\fR +directly. First, the Windows implementation of both functions fixes +some bugs in the system level calls. Second, both \fBTcl_Access\fR +and \fBTcl_Stat\fR (as well as \fBTcl_OpenFileChannelProc\fR) hook +into a linked list of functions. This allows the possibity to reroute +file access to alternative media or access methods. +.PP +\fBTcl_Access\fR checks whether the process would be allowed to read, +write or test for existence of the file (or other file system object) +whose name is pathname. If pathname is a symbolic link on Unix, +then permissions of the file referred by this symbolic link are +tested. +.PP +On success (all requested permissions granted), zero is returned. On +error (at least one bit in mode asked for a permission that is denied, +or some other error occurred), -1 is returned. +.PP +\fBTcl_Stat\fR fills the stat structure \fIstatPtr\fR with information +about the specified file. You do not need any access rights to the +file to get this information but you need search rights to all +directories named in the path leading to the file. The stat structure +includes info regarding device, inode (always 0 on Windows), +priviledge mode, nlink (always 1 on Windows), user id (always 0 on +Windows), group id (always 0 on Windows), rdev (same as device on +Windows), size, last access time, last modification time, and creation +time. +.PP +If \fIpath\fR exists, \fBTcl_Stat\fR returns 0 and the stat structure +is filled with data. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and no stat info is +given. + +.SH KEYWORDS +stat access |