Re: development question

"Alexander V. Lukyanov" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:50:31 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.network.lftp.devel
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On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:39:09PM +0100, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> Thanks, works nicely. But I have at least one more question. Is it possible to 
> obtain directory attributes in a reliable way? For files there is no problem 
> but calling "ls" on a directory lists it's contents not name and attributes. 
> I can call "ls" for .. instead of . (what if I have no privileges to list 
> files in .. ?) and get data from there but I thought that maybe there exists 
> an appropriate routine to simplify the job. TIA

There is the class GetFileInfo, which does just that - gets a single file or
directory attributes.

You create a GetFileInfo with showdir=true, wait until GetFileInfo::Done(),
then get result with GetFileInfo::GetResult. The result is FileSet, which
should contain a single FileInfo when showdir=true.

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