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4685 :: Query Filepath for owner and group ID or name

• jacobsin (orginal) [2019-03-01T19:05:11+01:00] view original

  I have searched the os, ospath, and plenty of other libraries in the STDLIB and can't find a way to query for the user and group id of a file. I can get the FilePermission and FileInfo but neither contain the owner or group ID. I would prefer the method be as cross platform as possible but if it only works for Unix systems thats fine.

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• Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2019-03-01T19:44:09+01:00] view original

  You may consult the posix module, but I am not sure if it really helps...

  https://nim-lang.org/docs/posix.html

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• cdunn2001 (orginal) [2019-03-01T19:53:29+01:00] view original

  Aren't those st_uid and st_gid in the Stat object, as modified by posix.stat()? To convert to a string use getpwuid(uid). (Will that also work for the gid?)

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• jacobsin (orginal) [2019-03-01T20:07:45+01:00] view original

  I actually saw that and... I couldn't quite figure out how to use it.

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• jacobsin (orginal) [2019-03-01T21:07:48+01:00] view original

  For anyone curious:

  import posix
  
  var path:cstring = "/home/jacobsin/test.txt"
  var s:Stat
  Stat(path, s)

  echo s

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• mashingan (orginal) [2019-03-02T07:41:22+01:00] view original

  using fstat ?

  import posix
  var f = open "/home/jacobsin/test.txt"
  var s: Stat
  discard fstat(cint f, s)
  Run

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