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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>LuaFileSystem</title>
- <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.keplerproject.org/doc.css" type="text/css"/>
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css" type="text/css"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
</head>
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
<div id="product">
<div id="product_logo">
- <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org"><img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/></a>
+ <a href="http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem">
+ <img alt="LuaFileSystem" src="luafilesystem.png"/>
+ </a>
</div>
<div id="product_name"><big><strong>LuaFileSystem</strong></big></div>
<div id="product_description">File System Library for the Lua Programming Language</div>
@@ -31,7 +33,6 @@
<li><a href="index.html#download">Download</a></li>
<li><a href="index.html#history">History</a></li>
<li><a href="index.html#credits">Credits</a></li>
- <li><a href="index.html#contact">Contact us</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Manual</strong>
@@ -43,10 +44,10 @@
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="examples.html">Examples</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luafilesystem/">Project</a>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Project</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66">Bug Tracker</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://luaforge.net/scm/?group_id=66">CVS</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem/issues">Bug Tracker</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem">Git</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="license.html">License</a></li>
@@ -101,14 +102,15 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
</p>
<dl class="reference">
- <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
+ <dt><a name="attributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.attributes (filepath [, aname | atable])</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to
- <code>filepath</code> (or <code>nil</code> followed by an error message
+ <code>filepath</code> (or <code>nil</code> followed by an error message and a system-dependent error code
in case of error).
- If the second optional argument is given, then only the value of the
+ If the second optional argument is given and is a string, then only the value of the
named attribute is returned (this use is equivalent to
- <code>lfs.attributes(filepath).aname</code>, but the table is not created
+ <code>lfs.attributes(filepath)[aname]</code>, but the table is not created
and only one attribute is retrieved from the O.S.).
+ if a table is passed as the second argument, it is filled with attributes and returned instead of a new table.
The attributes are described as follows;
attribute <code>mode</code> is a string, all the others are numbers,
and the time related attributes use the same time reference of
@@ -152,6 +154,9 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
<dt><strong><code>size</code></strong></dt>
<dd>file size, in bytes</dd>
+ <dt><strong><code>permissions</code></strong></dt>
+ <dd>file permissions string</dd>
+
<dt><strong><code>blocks</code></strong></dt>
<dd>block allocated for file; (Unix only)</dd>
@@ -172,9 +177,9 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code> plus an
error string.</dd>
- <dt><a name="chdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.lock_dir(path, [seconds_stale])</code></strong></dt>
+ <dt><a name="lock_dir"></a><strong><code>lfs.lock_dir(path, [seconds_stale])</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Creates a lockfile (called lockfile.lfs) in <code>path</code> if it does not
- exist and returns the lock. If the lock already exists checks it
+ exist and returns the lock. If the lock already exists checks if
it's stale, using the second parameter (default for the second
parameter is <code>INT_MAX</code>, which in practice means the lock will never
be stale. To free the the lock call <code>lock:free()</code>. <br/>
@@ -182,7 +187,7 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
particular, if the lock exists and is not stale it returns the
"File exists" message.</dd>
- <dt><a name="getcwd"></a><strong><code>lfs.currentdir ()</code></strong></dt>
+ <dt><a name="currentdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.currentdir ()</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Returns a string with the current working directory or <code>nil</code>
plus an error string.</dd>
@@ -206,30 +211,41 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful; in
case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
</dd>
+
+ <dt><a name="link"></a><strong><code>lfs.link (old, new[, symlink])</code></strong></dt>
+ <dd>Creates a link. The first argument is the object to link to
+ and the second is the name of the link. If the optional third
+ argument is true, the link will by a symbolic link (by default, a
+ hard link is created).
+ </dd>
<dt><a name="mkdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.mkdir (dirname)</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Creates a new directory. The argument is the name of the new
directory.<br />
- Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
- in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
+ Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+ a system-dependent error code in case of error.
</dd>
<dt><a name="rmdir"></a><strong><code>lfs.rmdir (dirname)</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Removes an existing directory. The argument is the name of the directory.<br />
- Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
- in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.</dd>
+ Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+ a system-dependent error code in case of error.
<dt><a name="setmode"></a><strong><code>lfs.setmode (file, mode)</code></strong></dt>
- <dd>Sets the writing mode for a file. The mode string can be either <code>binary</code> or <code>text</code>.
- Returns the previous mode string for the file. This function is only available in Windows, so you may want to make sure that
- <code>lfs.setmode</code> exists before using it.
+ <dd>Sets the writing mode for a file. The mode string can be either <code>"binary"</code> or <code>"text"</code>.
+ Returns <code>true</code> followed the previous mode string for the file, or
+ <code>nil</code> followed by an error string in case of errors.
+ On non-Windows platforms, where the two modes are identical,
+ setting the mode has no effect, and the mode is always returned as <code>binary</code>.
</dd>
<dt><a name="symlinkattributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.symlinkattributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
<dd>Identical to <a href="#attributes">lfs.attributes</a> except that
it obtains information about the link itself (not the file it refers to).
- This function is not available in Windows so you may want to make sure that
- <code>lfs.symlinkattributes</code> exists before using it.
+ It also adds a <strong><code>target</code></strong> field, containing
+ the file name that the symlink points to.
+ On Windows this function does not yet support links, and is identical to
+ <code>lfs.attributes</code>.
</dd>
<dt><a name="touch"></a><strong><code>lfs.touch (filepath [, atime [, mtime]])</code></strong></dt>
@@ -241,8 +257,8 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
Lua standard function <code>os.time</code>).
If the modification time is omitted, the access time provided is used;
if both times are omitted, the current time is used.<br />
- Returns <code>true</code> if the operation was successful;
- in case of error, it returns <code>nil</code> plus an error string.
+ Returns <code>true</code> in case of success or <code>nil</code>, an error message and
+ a system-dependent error code in case of error.
</dd>
<dt><a name="unlock"></a><strong><code>lfs.unlock (filehandle[, start[, length]])</code></strong></dt>
@@ -262,7 +278,6 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
<div id="about">
<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid XHTML 1.0!</a></p>
- <p><small>$Id: manual.html,v 1.45 2009/06/03 20:53:55 mascarenhas Exp $</small></p>
</div> <!-- id="about" -->
</div> <!-- id="container" -->