Re: [Bug-apl] Additions to FILE_IO

[David Lamkins]

You can use popen() to run pwd in a shell. It'll give you the same answer as calling getcwd() from within the APL process.

A file's presence can be probed using fstat(). A negative return value denotes the absence of the file.

popen() and fstat() are already exposed via lib_file_io.

Take a look at my package manager code for examples. See pkg⍙sh and pkg⍙file_info.

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From: Blake McBride <address@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:21:37 -0500
Subject: [Bug-apl] Additions to FILE_IO

Greetings,

It would be very helpful to have the following C functions added to the FILE_IO interface:

getcwd - good to be able to tell where you are

access - good to test to see if a file exists

Thanks.

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