NAME¶
Tcl_FSRegister, Tcl_FSUnregister, Tcl_FSData, Tcl_FSMountsChanged,
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath, Tcl_FSGetPathType, Tcl_FSCopyFile,
Tcl_FSCopyDirectory, Tcl_FSCreateDirectory, Tcl_FSDeleteFile,
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectory, Tcl_FSRenameFile, Tcl_FSListVolumes, Tcl_FSEvalFile,
Tcl_FSEvalFileEx, Tcl_FSLoadFile, Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory, Tcl_FSLink,
Tcl_FSLstat, Tcl_FSUtime, Tcl_FSFileAttrsGet, Tcl_FSFileAttrsSet,
Tcl_FSFileAttrStrings, Tcl_FSStat, Tcl_FSAccess, Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel,
Tcl_FSGetCwd, Tcl_FSChdir, Tcl_FSPathSeparator, Tcl_FSJoinPath,
Tcl_FSSplitPath, Tcl_FSEqualPaths, Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath, Tcl_FSJoinToPath,
Tcl_FSConvertToPathType, Tcl_FSGetInternalRep, Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath,
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath, Tcl_FSNewNativePath, Tcl_FSGetNativePath,
Tcl_FSFileSystemInfo, Tcl_AllocStatBuf - procedures to interact with any
filesystem
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <tcl.h>
int
Tcl_FSRegister(clientData, fsPtr)
int
Tcl_FSUnregister(fsPtr)
ClientData
Tcl_FSData(fsPtr)
void
Tcl_FSMountsChanged(fsPtr)
Tcl_Filesystem*
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath(pathPtr)
Tcl_PathType
Tcl_FSGetPathType(pathPtr)
int
Tcl_FSCopyFile(srcPathPtr, destPathPtr)
int
Tcl_FSCopyDirectory(srcPathPtr, destPathPtr, errorPtr)
int
Tcl_FSCreateDirectory(pathPtr)
int
Tcl_FSDeleteFile(pathPtr)
int
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectory(pathPtr, int recursive, errorPtr)
int
Tcl_FSRenameFile(srcPathPtr, destPathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSListVolumes(void)
int
Tcl_FSEvalFileEx(interp, pathPtr, encodingName)
int
Tcl_FSEvalFile(interp, pathPtr)
int
Tcl_FSLoadFile(interp, pathPtr, sym1, sym2, proc1Ptr, proc2Ptr,
handlePtr, unloadProcPtr)
int
Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory(interp, resultPtr, pathPtr, pattern, types)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSLink(linkNamePtr, toPtr, linkAction)
int
Tcl_FSLstat(pathPtr, statPtr)
int
Tcl_FSUtime(pathPtr, tval)
int
Tcl_FSFileAttrsGet(interp, int index, pathPtr, objPtrRef)
int
Tcl_FSFileAttrsSet(interp, int index, pathPtr, Tcl_Obj *objPtr)
const char**
Tcl_FSFileAttrStrings(pathPtr, objPtrRef)
int
Tcl_FSStat(pathPtr, statPtr)
int
Tcl_FSAccess(pathPtr, mode)
Tcl_Channel
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel(interp, pathPtr, modeString, permissions)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSGetCwd(interp)
int
Tcl_FSChdir(pathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSPathSeparator(pathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSJoinPath(listObj, elements)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSSplitPath(pathPtr, lenPtr)
int
Tcl_FSEqualPaths(firstPtr, secondPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath(interp, pathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSJoinToPath(basePtr, objc, objv)
int
Tcl_FSConvertToPathType(interp, pathPtr)
ClientData
Tcl_FSGetInternalRep(pathPtr, fsPtr)
Tcl_Obj *
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath(interp, pathPtr)
const char *
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath(interp, pathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSNewNativePath(fsPtr, clientData)
const char *
Tcl_FSGetNativePath(pathPtr)
Tcl_Obj*
Tcl_FSFileSystemInfo(pathPtr)
Tcl_StatBuf*
Tcl_AllocStatBuf()
ARGUMENTS¶
- Tcl_Filesystem *fsPtr (in)
- Points to a structure containing the addresses of procedures that can be
called to perform the various filesystem operations.
- Tcl_Obj *pathPtr (in)
- The path represented by this object is used for the operation in question.
If the object does not already have an internal path
representation, it will be converted to have one.
- Tcl_Obj *srcPathPtr (in)
- As for pathPtr, but used for the source file for a copy or rename
operation.
- Tcl_Obj *destPathPtr (in)
- As for pathPtr, but used for the destination filename for a copy or
rename operation.
- const char *encodingName (in)
- The encoding of the data stored in the file identified by pathPtr
and to be evaluated.
- const char *pattern (in)
- Only files or directories matching this pattern will be returned.
- Tcl_GlobTypeData *types (in)
- Only files or directories matching the type descriptions contained in this
structure will be returned. This parameter may be NULL.
- Tcl_Interp *interp (in)
- Interpreter to use either for results, evaluation, or reporting error
messages.
- ClientData clientData (in)
- The native description of the path object to create.
- Tcl_Obj *firstPtr (in)
- The first of two path objects to compare. The object may be converted to
path type.
- Tcl_Obj *secondPtr (in)
- The second of two path objects to compare. The object may be converted to
path type.
- Tcl_Obj *listObj (in)
- The list of path elements to operate on with a join operation.
- int elements (in)
- If non-negative, the number of elements in the listObj which should
be joined together. If negative, then all elements are joined.
- Tcl_Obj **errorPtr (out)
- In the case of an error, filled with an object containing the name of the
file which caused an error in the various copy/rename operations.
- Tcl_Obj **objPtrRef (out)
- Filled with an object containing the result of the operation.
- Tcl_Obj *resultPtr (out)
- Pre-allocated object in which to store (using
Tcl_ListObjAppendElement) the list of files or directories which
are successfully matched.
- 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.
- Tcl_StatBuf *statPtr (out)
- The structure that contains the result of a stat or lstat operation.
- const char *sym1 (in)
- Name of a procedure to look up in the file's symbol table
- const char *sym2 (in)
- Name of a procedure to look up in the file's symbol table
- Tcl_PackageInitProc **proc1Ptr (out)
- Filled with the init function for this code.
- Tcl_PackageInitProc **proc2Ptr (out)
- Filled with the safe-init function for this code.
- ClientData *clientDataPtr (out)
- Filled with the clientData value to pass to this code's unload function
when it is called.
- Tcl_LoadHandle *handlePtr (out)
- Filled with an abstract token representing the loaded file.
- Tcl_FSUnloadFileProc **unloadProcPtr (out)
- Filled with the function to use to unload this piece of code.
- utimbuf *tval (in)
- The access and modification times in this structure are read and used to
set those values for a given file.
- const char *modeString (in)
- Specifies how the file is to be accessed. May have any of the values
allowed for the mode argument to the Tcl open command.
- int permissions (in)
- POSIX-style permission flags such as 0644. If a new file is created, these
permissions will be set on the created file.
- int *lenPtr (out)
- If non-NULL, filled with the number of elements in the split path.
- Tcl_Obj *basePtr (in)
- The base path on to which to join the given elements. May be NULL.
- int objc (in)
- The number of elements in objv.
- Tcl_Obj *const objv[] (in)
- The elements to join to the given base path.
- Tcl_Obj *linkNamePtr (in)
- The name of the link to be created or read.
- Tcl_Obj *toPtr (in)
- What the link called linkNamePtr should be linked to, or NULL if
the symbolic link specified by linkNamePtr is to be read.
- int linkAction (in)
- OR-ed combination of flags indicating what kind of link should be created
(will be ignored if toPtr is NULL). Valid bits to set are
TCL_CREATE_SYMBOLIC_LINK and TCL_CREATE_HARD_LINK. When both
flags are set and the underlying filesystem can do either, symbolic links
are preferred.
DESCRIPTION¶
There are several reasons for calling the
Tcl_FS API functions (e.g.
Tcl_FSAccess and
Tcl_FSStat) rather than calling system level
functions like
access and
stat directly. First, they will work
cross-platform, so an extension which calls them should work unmodified on
Unix and Windows. Second, the Windows implementation of some of these
functions fixes some bugs in the system level calls. Third, these function
calls deal with any “Utf to platform-native” path conversions
which may be required (and may cache the results of such conversions for
greater efficiency on subsequent calls). Fourth, and perhaps most importantly,
all of these functions are “virtual filesystem aware”. Any
virtual filesystem (VFS for short) which has been registered (through
Tcl_FSRegister) may reroute file access to alternative media or access
methods. This means that all of these functions (and therefore the
corresponding
file,
glob,
pwd,
cd,
open,
etc. Tcl commands) may be operate on “files” which are not
native files in the native filesystem. This also means that any Tcl extension
which accesses the filesystem (FS for short) through this API is automatically
“virtual filesystem aware”. Of course, if an extension accesses
the native filesystem directly (through platform-specific APIs, for example),
then Tcl cannot intercept such calls.
If appropriate VFSes have been registered, the “files” may, to
give two examples, be remote (e.g. situated on a remote ftp server) or
archived (e.g. lying inside a .zip archive). Such registered filesystems
provide a lookup table of functions to implement all or some of the
functionality listed here. Finally, the
Tcl_FSStat and
Tcl_FSLstat calls abstract away from what the “struct
stat” buffer is actually declared to be, allowing the same code to be
used both on systems with and systems without support for files larger than
2GB in size.
The
Tcl_FS API is objectified and may cache internal representations and
other path-related strings (e.g. the current working directory). One
side-effect of this is that one must not pass in objects with a reference
count of zero to any of these functions. If such calls were handled, they
might result in memory leaks (under some circumstances, the filesystem code
may wish to retain a reference to the passed in object, and so one must not
assume that after any of these calls return, the object still has a reference
count of zero - it may have been incremented) or in a direct segmentation
fault (or other memory access error) due to the object being freed part way
through the complex object manipulation required to ensure that the path is
fully normalized and absolute for filesystem determination. The practical
lesson to learn from this is that
Tcl_Obj *path = Tcl_NewStringObj(...);
Tcl_FS Whatever(path);
Tcl_DecrRefCount(path);
is wrong, and may cause memory errors. The
path must have its reference
count incremented before passing it in, or decrementing it. For this reason,
objects with a reference count of zero are considered not to be valid
filesystem paths and calling any Tcl_FS API function with such an object will
result in no action being taken.
FS API FUNCTIONS¶
Tcl_FSCopyFile attempts to copy the file given by
srcPathPtr to
the path name given by
destPathPtr. If the two paths given lie in the
same filesystem (according to
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath) then that
filesystem's “copy file” function is called (if it is non-NULL).
Otherwise the function returns -1 and sets the
errno global C variable
to the “EXDEV” POSIX error code (which signifies a
“cross-domain link”).
Tcl_FSCopyDirectory attempts to copy the directory given by
srcPathPtr to the path name given by
destPathPtr. If the two
paths given lie in the same filesystem (according to
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath) then that filesystem's “copy
file” function is called (if it is non-NULL). Otherwise the function
returns -1 and sets the
errno global C variable to the
“EXDEV” POSIX error code (which signifies a “cross-domain
link”).
Tcl_FSCreateDirectory attempts to create the directory given by
pathPtr by calling the owning filesystem's “create
directory” function.
Tcl_FSDeleteFile attempts to delete the file given by
pathPtr by
calling the owning filesystem's “delete file” function.
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectory attempts to remove the directory given by
pathPtr by calling the owning filesystem's “remove
directory” function.
Tcl_FSRenameFile attempts to rename the file or directory given by
srcPathPtr to the path name given by
destPathPtr. If the two
paths given lie in the same filesystem (according to
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath) then that filesystem's “rename
file” function is called (if it is non-NULL). Otherwise the function
returns -1 and sets the
errno global C variable to the
“EXDEV” POSIX error code (which signifies a “cross-domain
link”).
Tcl_FSListVolumes calls each filesystem which has a non-NULL “list
volumes” function and asks them to return their list of root volumes.
It accumulates the return values in a list which is returned to the caller
(with a reference count of 0).
Tcl_FSEvalFileEx reads the file given by
pathPtr using the
encoding identified by
encodingName and evaluates its contents as a Tcl
script. It returns the same information as
Tcl_EvalObjEx. If
encodingName is NULL, the system encoding is used for reading the file
contents. If the file could not be read then a Tcl error is returned to
describe why the file could not be read. The eofchar for files is
“\32” (^Z) for all platforms. If you require a
“^Z” in code for string comparison, you can use
“\032” or “\u001a”, which will be safely
substituted by the Tcl interpreter into “^Z”.
Tcl_FSEvalFile is a simpler version of
Tcl_FSEvalFileEx that
always uses the system encoding when reading the file.
Tcl_FSLoadFile dynamically loads a binary code file into memory and
returns the addresses of two procedures within that file, if they are defined.
The appropriate function for the filesystem to which
pathPtr belongs
will be called. If that filesystem does not implement this function (most
virtual filesystems will not, because of OS limitations in dynamically loading
binary code), Tcl will attempt to copy the file to a temporary directory and
load that temporary file.
Returns a standard Tcl completion code. If an error occurs, an error message is
left in the
interp's result.
Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory is used by the globbing code to search a directory
for all files which match a given pattern. The appropriate function for the
filesystem to which
pathPtr belongs will be called.
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in globbing. Error messages are placed in interp (unless interp is NULL, which
is allowed), but good results are placed in the resultPtr given.
Note that the
glob code implements recursive patterns internally, so this
function will only ever be passed simple patterns, which can be matched using
the logic of
string match. To handle recursion, Tcl will call this
function frequently asking only for directories to be returned. A special case
of being called with a NULL pattern indicates that the path needs to be
checked only for the correct type.
Tcl_FSLink replaces the library version of
readlink, and extends
it to support the creation of links. The appropriate function for the
filesystem to which
linkNamePtr belongs will be called.
If the
toPtr is NULL, a “read link” action is performed.
The result is a Tcl_Obj specifying the contents of the symbolic link given by
linkNamePtr, or NULL if the link could not be read. The result is owned
by the caller, which should call Tcl_DecrRefCount when the result is no longer
needed. If the
toPtr is not NULL, Tcl should create a link of one of
the types passed in in the
linkAction flag. This flag is an ORed
combination of
TCL_CREATE_SYMBOLIC_LINK and
TCL_CREATE_HARD_LINK. Where a choice exists (i.e. more than one flag is
passed in), the Tcl convention is to prefer symbolic links. When a link is
successfully created, the return value should be
toPtr (which is
therefore already owned by the caller). If unsuccessful, NULL is returned.
Tcl_FSLstat fills the stat structure
statPtr 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), privilege 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 last metadata
change time.
If
path exists,
Tcl_FSLstat returns 0 and the stat structure is
filled with data. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and no stat info is given.
Tcl_FSUtime replaces the library version of utime.
This returns 0 on success and -1 on error (as per the
utime
documentation). If successful, the function will update the
“atime” and “mtime” values of the file given.
Tcl_FSFileAttrsGet implements read access for the hookable
file
attributes subcommand. The appropriate function for the filesystem to
which
pathPtr belongs will be called.
If the result is
TCL_OK, then an object was placed in
objPtrRef,
which will only be temporarily valid (unless
Tcl_IncrRefCount is
called).
Tcl_FSFileAttrsSet implements write access for the hookable
file
attributes subcommand. The appropriate function for the filesystem to
which
pathPtr belongs will be called.
Tcl_FSFileAttrStrings implements part of the hookable
file
attributes subcommand. The appropriate function for the filesystem to
which
pathPtr belongs will be called.
The called procedure may either return an array of strings, or may instead
return NULL and place a Tcl list into the given
objPtrRef. Tcl will
take that list and first increment its reference count before using it. On
completion of that use, Tcl will decrement its reference count. Hence if the
list should be disposed of by Tcl when done, it should have a reference count
of zero, and if the list should not be disposed of, the filesystem should
ensure it retains a reference count to the object.
Tcl_FSAccess checks whether the process would be allowed to read, write
or test for existence of the file (or other filesystem 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.
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.
Tcl_FSStat fills the stat structure
statPtr 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), privilege 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 last metadata
change time.
If
path exists,
Tcl_FSStat returns 0 and the stat structure is
filled with data. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and no stat info is given.
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel opens a file specified by
pathPtr and
returns a channel handle that can be used to perform input and output on the
file. This API is modeled after the
fopen procedure of the Unix
standard I/O library. The syntax and meaning of all arguments is similar to
those given in the Tcl
open command when opening a file. If an error
occurs while opening the channel,
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel returns NULL
and records a POSIX error code that can be retrieved with
Tcl_GetErrno.
In addition, if
interp is non-NULL,
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel leaves
an error message in
interp's result after any error.
The newly created channel is not registered in the supplied interpreter; to
register it, use
Tcl_RegisterChannel. If one of the standard channels,
stdin, stdout or
stderr was previously closed, the act of
creating the new channel also assigns it as a replacement for the standard
channel.
Tcl_FSGetCwd replaces the library version of
getcwd.
It returns the Tcl library's current working directory. This may be different to
the native platform's working directory, which happens when the current
working directory is not in the native filesystem.
The result is a pointer to a Tcl_Obj specifying the current directory, or NULL
if the current directory could not be determined. If NULL is returned, an
error message is left in the
interp's result.
The result already has its reference count incremented for the caller. When it
is no longer needed, that reference count should be decremented. This is
needed for thread-safety purposes, to allow multiple threads to access this
and related functions, while ensuring the results are always valid.
Tcl_FSChdir replaces the library version of
chdir. The path is
normalized and then passed to the filesystem which claims it. If that
filesystem does not implement this function, Tcl will fallback to a
combination of
stat and
access to check whether the directory
exists and has appropriate permissions.
For results, see
chdir documentation. If successful, we keep a record of
the successful path in
cwdPathPtr for subsequent calls to
Tcl_FSGetCwd.
Tcl_FSPathSeparator returns the separator character to be used for most
specific element of the path specified by
pathPtr (i.e. the last part
of the path).
The separator is returned as a Tcl_Obj containing a string of length 1. If the
path is invalid, NULL is returned.
Tcl_FSJoinPath takes the given Tcl_Obj, which must be a valid list (which
is allowed to have a reference count of zero), and returns the path object
given by considering the first
elements elements as valid path segments
(each path segment may be a complete path, a partial path or just a single
possible directory or file name). If any path segment is actually an absolute
path, then all prior path segments are discarded. If
elements is less
than 0, we use the entire list.
It is possible that the returned object is actually an element of the given
list, so the caller should be careful to increment the reference count of the
result before freeing the list.
The returned object, typically with a reference count of zero (but it could be
shared under some conditions), contains the joined path. The caller must add a
reference count to the object before using it. In particular, the returned
object could be an element of the given list, so freeing the list might free
the object prematurely if no reference count has been taken. If the number of
elements is zero, then the returned object will be an empty-string Tcl_Obj.
Tcl_FSSplitPath takes the given Tcl_Obj, which should be a valid path,
and returns a Tcl list object containing each segment of that path as an
element. It returns a list object with a reference count of zero. If the
passed in
lenPtr is non-NULL, the variable it points to will be updated
to contain the number of elements in the returned list.
Tcl_FSEqualPaths tests whether the two paths given represent the same
filesystem object
It returns 1 if the paths are equal, and 0 if they are different. If either path
is NULL, 0 is always returned.
Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath this important function attempts to extract from
the given Tcl_Obj a unique normalized path representation, whose string value
can be used as a unique identifier for the file.
It returns the normalized path object, owned by Tcl, or NULL if the path was
invalid or could otherwise not be successfully converted. Extraction of
absolute, normalized paths is very efficient (because the filesystem operates
on these representations internally), although the result when the filesystem
contains numerous symbolic links may not be the most user-friendly version of
a path. The return value is owned by Tcl and has a lifetime equivalent to that
of the
pathPtr passed in (unless that is a relative path, in which case
the normalized path object may be freed any time the cwd changes) - the caller
can of course increment the refCount if it wishes to maintain a copy for
longer.
Tcl_FSJoinToPath takes the given object, which should usually be a valid
path or NULL, and joins onto it the array of paths segments given.
Returns object, typically with refCount of zero (but it could be shared under
some conditions), containing the joined path. The caller must add a refCount
to the object before using it. If any of the objects passed into this function
(pathPtr or path elements) have a refCount of zero, they will be freed when
this function returns.
Tcl_FSConvertToPathType tries to convert the given Tcl_Obj to a valid Tcl
path type, taking account of the fact that the cwd may have changed even if
this object is already supposedly of the correct type. The filename may begin
with “~” (to indicate current user's home directory) or
“~<user>” (to indicate any user's home directory).
If the conversion succeeds (i.e. the object is a valid path in one of the
current filesystems), then
TCL_OK is returned. Otherwise
TCL_ERROR is returned, and an error message may be left in the
interpreter.
Tcl_FSGetInternalRep extracts the internal representation of a given path
object, in the given filesystem. If the path object belongs to a different
filesystem, we return NULL. If the internal representation is currently NULL,
we attempt to generate it, by calling the filesystem's
Tcl_FSCreateInternalRepProc.
Returns NULL or a valid internal path representation. This internal
representation is cached, so that repeated calls to this function will not
require additional conversions.
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath attempts to extract the translated path from the
given Tcl_Obj.
If the translation succeeds (i.e. the object is a valid path), then it is
returned. Otherwise NULL will be returned, and an error message may be left in
the interpreter. A “translated” path is one which contains no
“~” or “~user” sequences (these have been expanded
to their current representation in the filesystem). The object returned is
owned by the caller, which must store it or call Tcl_DecrRefCount to ensure
memory is freed. This function is of little practical use, and
Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath or
Tcl_GetNativePath are usually better
functions to use for most purposes.
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedStringPath does the same as
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath, but returns a character string or NULL. The
string returned is dynamically allocated and owned by the caller, which must
store it or call
ckfree to ensure it is freed. Again,
Tcl_FSGetNormalizedPath or
Tcl_GetNativePath are usually better
functions to use for most purposes.
Tcl_FSNewNativePath performs something like the reverse of the usual
obj->path->nativerep conversions. If some code retrieves a path in
native form (from, e.g.
readlink or a native dialog), and that path is
to be used at the Tcl level, then calling this function is an efficient way of
creating the appropriate path object type.
The resulting object is a pure “path” object, which will only
receive a UTF-8 string representation if that is required by some Tcl code.
Tcl_FSGetNativePath is for use by the Win/Unix native filesystems, so
that they can easily retrieve the native (char* or TCHAR*) representation of a
path. This function is a convenience wrapper around
Tcl_FSGetInternalRep, and assumes the native representation is
string-based. It may be desirable in the future to have non-string-based
native representations (for example, on MacOSX, a representation using a
fileSpec of FSRef structure would probably be more efficient). On Windows a
full Unicode representation would allow for paths of unlimited length.
Currently the representation is simply a character string which may contain
either the relative path or a complete, absolute normalized path in the native
encoding (complex conditions dictate which of these will be provided, so
neither can be relied upon, unless the path is known to be absolute). If you
need a native path which must be absolute, then you should ask for the native
version of a normalized path. If for some reason a non-absolute,
non-normalized version of the path is needed, that must be constructed
separately (e.g. using
Tcl_FSGetTranslatedPath).
The native representation is cached so that repeated calls to this function will
not require additional conversions. The return value is owned by Tcl and has a
lifetime equivalent to that of the
pathPtr passed in (unless that is a
relative path, in which case the native representation may be freed any time
the cwd changes).
Tcl_FSFileSystemInfo returns a list of two elements. The first element is
the name of the filesystem (e.g. “native”, “vfs”,
“zip”, or “prowrap”, perhaps), and the second is
the particular type of the given path within that filesystem (which is
filesystem dependent). The second element may be empty if the filesystem does
not provide a further categorization of files.
A valid list object is returned, unless the path object is not recognized, when
NULL will be returned.
Tcl_FSGetFileSystemForPath returns the a pointer to the
Tcl_Filesystem which accepts this path as valid.
If no filesystem will accept the path, NULL is returned.
Tcl_FSGetPathType determines whether the given path is relative to the
current directory, relative to the current volume, or absolute.
It returns one of
TCL_PATH_ABSOLUTE,
TCL_PATH_RELATIVE, or
TCL_PATH_VOLUME_RELATIVE
Tcl_AllocStatBuf allocates a
Tcl_StatBuf on the system heap (which
may be deallocated by being passed to
ckfree.) This allows extensions
to invoke
Tcl_FSStat and
Tcl_FSLStat without being dependent on
the size of the buffer. That in turn depends on the flags used to build Tcl.
THE VIRTUAL FILESYSTEM API¶
A filesystem provides a
Tcl_Filesystem structure that contains pointers
to functions that implement the various operations on a filesystem; these
operations are invoked as needed by the generic layer, which generally occurs
through the functions listed above.
The
Tcl_Filesystem structures are manipulated using the following
methods.
Tcl_FSRegister takes a pointer to a filesystem structure and an optional
piece of data to associated with that filesystem. On calling this function,
Tcl will attach the filesystem to the list of known filesystems, and it will
become fully functional immediately. Tcl does not check if the same filesystem
is registered multiple times (and in general that is not a good thing to do).
TCL_OK will be returned.
Tcl_FSUnregister removes the given filesystem structure from the list of
known filesystems, if it is known, and returns
TCL_OK. If the
filesystem is not currently registered,
TCL_ERROR is returned.
Tcl_FSData will return the ClientData associated with the given
filesystem, if that filesystem is registered. Otherwise it will return NULL.
Tcl_FSMountsChanged is used to inform the Tcl's core that the set of
mount points for the given (already registered) filesystem have changed, and
that cached file representations may therefore no longer be correct.
THE TCL_FILESYSTEM STRUCTURE¶
The
Tcl_Filesystem structure contains the following fields:
typedef struct Tcl_Filesystem {
const char * typeName;
int structureLength;
Tcl_FSVersion version;
Tcl_FSPathInFilesystemProc * pathInFilesystemProc;
Tcl_FSDupInternalRepProc * dupInternalRepProc;
Tcl_FSFreeInternalRepProc * freeInternalRepProc;
Tcl_FSInternalToNormalizedProc * internalToNormalizedProc;
Tcl_FSCreateInternalRepProc * createInternalRepProc;
Tcl_FSNormalizePathProc * normalizePathProc;
Tcl_FSFilesystemPathTypeProc * filesystemPathTypeProc;
Tcl_FSFilesystemSeparatorProc * filesystemSeparatorProc;
Tcl_FSStatProc * statProc;
Tcl_FSAccessProc * accessProc;
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc * openFileChannelProc;
Tcl_FSMatchInDirectoryProc * matchInDirectoryProc;
Tcl_FSUtimeProc * utimeProc;
Tcl_FSLinkProc * linkProc;
Tcl_FSListVolumesProc * listVolumesProc;
Tcl_FSFileAttrStringsProc * fileAttrStringsProc;
Tcl_FSFileAttrsGetProc * fileAttrsGetProc;
Tcl_FSFileAttrsSetProc * fileAttrsSetProc;
Tcl_FSCreateDirectoryProc * createDirectoryProc;
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectoryProc * removeDirectoryProc;
Tcl_FSDeleteFileProc * deleteFileProc;
Tcl_FSCopyFileProc * copyFileProc;
Tcl_FSRenameFileProc * renameFileProc;
Tcl_FSCopyDirectoryProc * copyDirectoryProc;
Tcl_FSLstatProc * lstatProc;
Tcl_FSLoadFileProc * loadFileProc;
Tcl_FSGetCwdProc * getCwdProc;
Tcl_FSChdirProc * chdirProc;
} Tcl_Filesystem;
Except for the first three fields in this structure which contain simple data
elements, all entries contain addresses of functions called by the generic
filesystem layer to perform the complete range of filesystem related actions.
The many functions in this structure are broken down into three categories:
infrastructure functions (almost all of which must be implemented),
operational functions (which must be implemented if a complete filesystem is
provided), and efficiency functions (which need only be implemented if they
can be done so efficiently, or if they have side-effects which are required by
the filesystem; Tcl has less efficient emulations it can fall back on). It is
important to note that, in the current version of Tcl, most of these fallbacks
are only used to handle commands initiated in Tcl, not in C. What this means
is, that if a
file rename command is issued in Tcl, and the relevant
filesystem(s) do not implement their
Tcl_FSRenameFileProc, Tcl's core
will instead fallback on a combination of other filesystem functions (it will
use
Tcl_FSCopyFileProc followed by
Tcl_FSDeleteFileProc, and if
Tcl_FSCopyFileProc is not implemented there is a further fallback).
However, if a
Tcl_FSRenameFileProc command is issued at the C level, no
such fallbacks occur. This is true except for the last four entries in the
filesystem table (
lstat,
load,
getcwd and
chdir)
for which fallbacks do in fact occur at the C level.
Any functions which take path names in Tcl_Obj form take those names in UTF-8
form. The filesystem infrastructure API is designed to support efficient,
cached conversion of these UTF-8 paths to other native representations.
EXAMPLE FILESYSTEM DEFINITION¶
Here is the filesystem lookup table used by the “vfs” extension
which allows filesystem actions to be implemented in Tcl.
static Tcl_Filesystem vfsFilesystem = {
"tclvfs",
sizeof(Tcl_Filesystem),
TCL_FILESYSTEM_VERSION_1,
&VfsPathInFilesystem,
&VfsDupInternalRep,
&VfsFreeInternalRep,
/* No internal to normalized, since we don't create
* any pure 'internal' Tcl_Obj path representations */
NULL,
/* No create native rep function, since we don't use
* it and don't choose to support uses of
* Tcl_FSNewNativePath */
NULL,
/* Normalize path isn't needed - we assume paths only
* have one representation */
NULL,
&VfsFilesystemPathType,
&VfsFilesystemSeparator,
&VfsStat,
&VfsAccess,
&VfsOpenFileChannel,
&VfsMatchInDirectory,
&VfsUtime,
/* We choose not to support symbolic links inside our
* VFS's */
NULL,
&VfsListVolumes,
&VfsFileAttrStrings,
&VfsFileAttrsGet,
&VfsFileAttrsSet,
&VfsCreateDirectory,
&VfsRemoveDirectory,
&VfsDeleteFile,
/* No copy file; use the core fallback mechanism */
NULL,
/* No rename file; use the core fallback mechanism */
NULL,
/* No copy directory; use the core fallback mechanism */
NULL,
/* Core will use stat for lstat */
NULL,
/* No load; use the core fallback mechanism */
NULL,
/* We don't need a getcwd or chdir; the core's own
* internal value is suitable */
NULL,
NULL
};
FILESYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE¶
These fields contain basic information about the filesystem structure and
addresses of functions which are used to associate a particular filesystem
with a file path, and deal with the internal handling of path representations,
for example copying and freeing such representations.
TYPENAME¶
The
typeName field contains a null-terminated string that identifies the
type of the filesystem implemented, e.g. “native”,
“zip” or “vfs”.
STRUCTURE LENGTH¶
The
structureLength field is generally implemented as
sizeof(Tcl_Filesystem), and is there to allow easier binary backwards
compatibility if the size of the structure changes in a future Tcl release.
VERSION¶
The
version field should be set to
TCL_FILESYSTEM_VERSION_1.
PATHINFILESYSTEMPROC¶
The
pathInFilesystemProc field contains the address of a function which
is called to determine whether a given path object belongs to this filesystem
or not. Tcl will only call the rest of the filesystem functions with a path
for which this function has returned
TCL_OK. If the path does not
belong, -1 should be returned (the behaviour of Tcl for any other return value
is not defined). If
TCL_OK is returned, then the optional
clientDataPtr output parameter can be used to return an internal
(filesystem specific) representation of the path, which will be cached inside
the path object, and may be retrieved efficiently by the other filesystem
functions. Tcl will simultaneously cache the fact that this path belongs to
this filesystem. Such caches are invalidated when filesystem structures are
added or removed from Tcl's internal list of known filesystems.
typedef int Tcl_FSPathInFilesystemProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
ClientData * clientDataPtr);
DUPINTERNALREPPROC¶
This function makes a copy of a path's internal representation, and is called
when Tcl needs to duplicate a path object. If NULL, Tcl will simply not copy
the internal representation, which may then need to be regenerated later.
typedef ClientData Tcl_FSDupInternalRepProc(
ClientData clientData);
FREEINTERNALREPPROC¶
Free the internal representation. This must be implemented if internal
representations need freeing (i.e. if some memory is allocated when an
internal representation is generated), but may otherwise be NULL.
typedef void Tcl_FSFreeInternalRepProc(
ClientData clientData);
INTERNALTONORMALIZEDPROC¶
Function to convert internal representation to a normalized path. Only required
if the filesystem creates pure path objects with no string/path
representation. The return value is a Tcl object whose string representation
is the normalized path.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSInternalToNormalizedProc(
ClientData clientData);
CREATEINTERNALREPPROC¶
Function to take a path object, and calculate an internal representation for it,
and store that native representation in the object. May be NULL if paths have
no internal representation, or if the
Tcl_FSPathInFilesystemProc for
this filesystem always immediately creates an internal representation for
paths it accepts.
typedef ClientData Tcl_FSCreateInternalRepProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
NORMALIZEPATHPROC¶
Function to normalize a path. Should be implemented for all filesystems which
can have multiple string representations for the same path object. In Tcl,
every “path” must have a single unique
“normalized” string representation. Depending on the filesystem,
there may be more than one unnormalized string representation which refers to
that path (e.g. a relative path, a path with different character case if the
filesystem is case insensitive, a path contain a reference to a home directory
such as “~”, a path containing symbolic links, etc). If the very
last component in the path is a symbolic link, it should not be converted into
the object it points to (but its case or other aspects should be made unique).
All other path components should be converted from symbolic links. This one
exception is required to agree with Tcl's semantics with
file
delete,
file rename,
file copy operating on symbolic
links. This function may be called with
nextCheckpoint either at the
beginning of the path (i.e. zero), at the end of the path, or at any
intermediate file separator in the path. It will never point to any other
arbitrary position in the path. In the last of the three valid cases, the
implementation can assume that the path up to and including the file separator
is known and normalized.
typedef int Tcl_FSNormalizePathProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
int nextCheckpoint);
FILESYSTEM OPERATIONS¶
The fields in this section of the structure contain addresses of functions which
are called to carry out the basic filesystem operations. A filesystem which
expects to be used with the complete standard Tcl command set must implement
all of these. If some of them are not implemented, then certain Tcl commands
may fail when operating on paths within that filesystem. However, in some
instances this may be desirable (for example, a read-only filesystem should
not implement the last four functions, and a filesystem which does not support
symbolic links need not implement the
readlink function, etc. The Tcl
core expects filesystems to behave in this way).
FILESYSTEMPATHTYPEPROC¶
Function to determine the type of a path in this filesystem. May be NULL, in
which case no type information will be available to users of the filesystem.
The “type” is used only for informational purposes, and should
be returned as the string representation of the Tcl_Obj which is returned. A
typical return value might be “networked”, “zip”
or “ftp”. The Tcl_Obj result is owned by the filesystem and so
Tcl will increment the refCount of that object if it wishes to retain a
reference to it.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSFilesystemPathTypeProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
FILESYSTEMSEPARATORPROC¶
Function to return the separator character(s) for this filesystem. This need
only be implemented if the filesystem wishes to use a different separator than
the standard string “/”. Amongst other uses, it is returned by
the
file separator command. The return value should be an object with
refCount of zero.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSFilesystemSeparatorProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
STATPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSStat call. Must be implemented for any
reasonable filesystem, since many Tcl level commands depend crucially upon it
(e.g.
file atime,
file isdirectory,
file size,
glob).
typedef int Tcl_FSStatProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_StatBuf * statPtr);
The
Tcl_FSStatProc fills the stat structure
statPtr 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), privilege 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 last metadata change time.
If the file represented by
pathPtr exists, the
Tcl_FSStatProc
returns 0 and the stat structure is filled with data. Otherwise, -1 is
returned, and no stat info is given.
ACCESSPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSAccess call. Must be implemented for any
reasonable filesystem, since many Tcl level commands depend crucially upon it
(e.g.
file exists,
file readable).
typedef int Tcl_FSAccessProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
int mode);
The
Tcl_FSAccessProc checks whether the process would be allowed to read,
write or test for existence of the file (or other filesystem object) whose
name is in
pathPtr. If the pathname refers to a symbolic link, then the
permissions of the file referred by this symbolic link should be tested.
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.
OPENFILECHANNELPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel call. Must be implemented for
any reasonable filesystem, since any operations which require open or
accessing a file's contents will use it (e.g.
open,
encoding,
and many Tk commands).
typedef Tcl_Channel Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
int mode,
int permissions);
The
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc opens a file specified by
pathPtr
and returns a channel handle that can be used to perform input and output on
the file. This API is modeled after the
fopen procedure of the Unix
standard I/O library. The syntax and meaning of all arguments is similar to
those given in the Tcl
open command when opening a file, where the
mode argument is a combination of the POSIX flags O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY,
etc. If an error occurs while opening the channel, the
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc returns NULL and records a POSIX error code
that can be retrieved with
Tcl_GetErrno. In addition, if
interp
is non-NULL, the
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannelProc leaves an error message in
interp's result after any error.
The newly created channel must not registered in the supplied interpreter; that
task is up to the caller of
Tcl_FSOpenFileChannel (if necessary). If
one of the standard channels,
stdin, stdout or
stderr was
previously closed, the act of creating the new channel also assigns it as a
replacement for the standard channel.
MATCHINDIRECTORYPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSMatchInDirectory call. If not implemented,
then glob and recursive copy functionality will be lacking in the filesystem
(and this may impact commands like
encoding names which use glob
functionality internally).
typedef int Tcl_FSMatchInDirectoryProc(
Tcl_Interp* interp,
Tcl_Obj * resultPtr,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
const char * pattern,
Tcl_GlobTypeData * types);
The function should return all files or directories (or other filesystem
objects) which match the given pattern and accord with the
types
specification given. There are two ways in which this function may be called.
If
pattern is NULL, then
pathPtr is a full path specification of
a single file or directory which should be checked for existence and correct
type. Otherwise,
pathPtr is a directory, the contents of which the
function should search for files or directories which have the correct type.
In either case,
pathPtr can be assumed to be both non-NULL and
non-empty. It is not currently documented whether
pathPtr will have a
file separator at its end of not, so code should be flexible to both
possibilities.
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the matching process. Error messages are placed in
interp, unless
interp in NULL in which case no error message need be generated; on a
TCL_OK result, results should be added to the
resultPtr object
given (which can be assumed to be a valid unshared Tcl list). The matches
added to
resultPtr should include any path prefix given in
pathPtr (this usually means they will be absolute path specifications).
Note that if no matches are found, that simply leads to an empty result;
errors are only signaled for actual file or filesystem problems which may
occur during the matching process.
The
Tcl_GlobTypeData structure passed in the
types parameter
contains the following fields:
typedef struct Tcl_GlobTypeData {
/* Corresponds to bcdpfls as in 'find -t' */
int type;
/* Corresponds to file permissions */
int perm;
/* Acceptable mac type */
Tcl_Obj * macType;
/* Acceptable mac creator */
Tcl_Obj * macCreator;
} Tcl_GlobTypeData;
There are two specific cases which it is important to handle correctly, both
when
types is non-NULL. The two cases are when
types->types
& TCL_GLOB_TYPE_DIR or
types->types &
TCL_GLOB_TYPE_MOUNT are true (and in particular when the other flags are
false). In the first of these cases, the function must list the contained
directories. Tcl uses this to implement recursive globbing, so it is critical
that filesystems implement directory matching correctly. In the second of
these cases, with
TCL_GLOB_TYPE_MOUNT, the filesystem must list the
mount points which lie within the given
pathPtr (and in this case,
pathPtr need not lie within the same filesystem - different to all
other cases in which this function is called). Support for this is critical if
Tcl is to have seamless transitions between from one filesystem to another.
UTIMEPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSUtime call. Required to allow setting (not
reading) of times with
file mtime,
file atime and the
open-r/open-w/fcopy implementation of
file copy.
typedef int Tcl_FSUtimeProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
struct utimbuf * tval);
The access and modification times of the file specified by
pathPtr should
be changed to the values given in the
tval structure.
The return value should be 0 on success and -1 on an error, as with the system
utime.
LINKPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSLink call. Should be implemented only if the
filesystem supports links, and may otherwise be NULL.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSLinkProc(
Tcl_Obj * linkNamePtr,
Tcl_Obj * toPtr,
int linkAction);
If
toPtr is NULL, the function is being asked to read the contents of a
link. The result is a Tcl_Obj specifying the contents of the link given by
linkNamePtr, or NULL if the link could not be read. The result is owned
by the caller (and should therefore have its ref count incremented before
being returned). Any callers should call Tcl_DecrRefCount on this result when
it is no longer needed. If
toPtr is not NULL, the function should
attempt to create a link. The result in this case should be
toPtr if
the link was successful and NULL otherwise. In this case the result is not
owned by the caller (i.e. no ref count manipulation on either end is needed).
See the documentation for
Tcl_FSLink for the correct interpretation of
the
linkAction flags.
LISTVOLUMESPROC¶
Function to list any filesystem volumes added by this filesystem. Should be
implemented only if the filesystem adds volumes at the head of the filesystem,
so that they can be returned by
file volumes.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSListVolumesProc(void);
The result should be a list of volumes added by this filesystem, or NULL (or an
empty list) if no volumes are provided. The result object is considered to be
owned by the filesystem (not by Tcl's core), but should be given a refCount
for Tcl. Tcl will use the contents of the list and then decrement that
refCount. This allows filesystems to choose whether they actually want to
retain a “master list” of volumes or not (if not, they generate
the list on the fly and pass it to Tcl with a refCount of 1 and then forget
about the list, if yes, then they simply increment the refCount of their
master list and pass it to Tcl which will copy the contents and then decrement
the count back to where it was).
Therefore, Tcl considers return values from this proc to be read-only.
FILEATTRSTRINGSPROC¶
Function to list all attribute strings which are valid for this filesystem. If
not implemented the filesystem will not support the
file attributes
command. This allows arbitrary additional information to be attached to files
in the filesystem. If it is not implemented, there is no need to implement the
get and
set methods.
typedef const char** Tcl_FSFileAttrStringsProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_Obj** objPtrRef);
The called function may either return an array of strings, or may instead return
NULL and place a Tcl list into the given
objPtrRef. Tcl will take that
list and first increment its reference count before using it. On completion of
that use, Tcl will decrement its reference count. Hence if the list should be
disposed of by Tcl when done, it should have a reference count of zero, and if
the list should not be disposed of, the filesystem should ensure it returns an
object with a reference count of at least one.
FILEATTRSGETPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSFileAttrsGet call, used by
file
attributes.
typedef int Tcl_FSFileAttrsGetProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp,
int index,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_Obj ** objPtrRef);
Returns a standard Tcl return code. The attribute value retrieved, which
corresponds to the
index'th element in the list returned by the
Tcl_FSFileAttrStringsProc, is a Tcl_Obj placed in
objPtrRef (if
TCL_OK was returned) and is likely to have a reference count of zero.
Either way we must either store it somewhere (e.g. the Tcl result), or
Incr/Decr its reference count to ensure it is properly freed.
Function to process a
Tcl_FSFileAttrsSet call, used by
file
attributes. If the filesystem is read-only, there is no need to
implement this.
typedef int Tcl_FSFileAttrsSetProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp,
int index,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_Obj * objPtr);
The attribute value of the
index'th element in the list returned by the
Tcl_FSFileAttrStringsProc should be set to the
objPtr given.
CREATEDIRECTORYPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSCreateDirectory call. Should be implemented
unless the FS is read-only.
typedef int Tcl_FSCreateDirectoryProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the process. If successful, a new directory should have been added to the
filesystem in the location specified by
pathPtr.
REMOVEDIRECTORYPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectory call. Should be implemented
unless the FS is read-only.
typedef int Tcl_FSRemoveDirectoryProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
int recursive,
Tcl_Obj ** errorPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the process. If successful, the directory specified by
pathPtr
should have been removed from the filesystem. If the
recursive flag is
given, then a non-empty directory should be deleted without error. If this
flag is not given, then and the directory is non-empty a POSIX
“EEXIST” error should be signaled. If an error does occur, the
name of the file or directory which caused the error should be placed in
errorPtr.
DELETEFILEPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSDeleteFile call. Should be implemented unless
the FS is read-only.
typedef int Tcl_FSDeleteFileProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the process. If successful, the file specified by
pathPtr should
have been removed from the filesystem. Note that, if the filesystem supports
symbolic links, Tcl will always call this function and not
Tcl_FSRemoveDirectoryProc when needed to delete them (even if they are
symbolic links to directories).
FILESYSTEM EFFICIENCY¶
These functions need not be implemented for a particular filesystem because the
core has a fallback implementation available. See each individual description
for the consequences of leaving the field NULL.
LSTATPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSLstat call. If not implemented, Tcl will
attempt to use the
statProc defined above instead. Therefore it need
only be implemented if a filesystem can differentiate between
stat and
lstat calls.
typedef int Tcl_FSLstatProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_StatBuf * statPtr);
The behavior of this function is very similar to that of the
Tcl_FSStatProc defined above, except that if it is applied to a
symbolic link, it returns information about the link, not about the target
file.
COPYFILEPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSCopyFile call. If not implemented Tcl will
fall back on
open-r,
open-w and
fcopy as a copying
mechanism. Therefore it need only be implemented if the filesystem can perform
that action more efficiently.
typedef int Tcl_FSCopyFileProc(
Tcl_Obj * srcPathPtr,
Tcl_Obj * destPathPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the copying process. Note that,
destPathPtr is the name of the file
which should become the copy of
srcPathPtr. It is never the name of a
directory into which
srcPathPtr could be copied (i.e. the function is
much simpler than the Tcl level
file copy subcommand). Note
that, if the filesystem supports symbolic links, Tcl will always call this
function and not
copyDirectoryProc when needed to copy them (even if
they are symbolic links to directories). Finally, if the filesystem determines
it cannot support the
file copy action, calling
Tcl_SetErrno(EXDEV) and returning a non-
TCL_OK result will tell
Tcl to use its standard fallback mechanisms.
RENAMEFILEPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSRenameFile call. If not implemented, Tcl will
fall back on a copy and delete mechanism. Therefore it need only be
implemented if the filesystem can perform that action more efficiently.
typedef int Tcl_FSRenameFileProc(
Tcl_Obj * srcPathPtr,
Tcl_Obj * destPathPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the renaming process. If the filesystem determines it cannot support the
file rename action, calling
Tcl_SetErrno(EXDEV) and returning a
non-
TCL_OK result will tell Tcl to use its standard fallback
mechanisms.
COPYDIRECTORYPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSCopyDirectory call. If not implemented, Tcl
will fall back on a recursive
file mkdir,
file copy mechanism.
Therefore it need only be implemented if the filesystem can perform that
action more efficiently.
typedef int Tcl_FSCopyDirectoryProc(
Tcl_Obj * srcPathPtr,
Tcl_Obj * destPathPtr,
Tcl_Obj ** errorPtr);
The return value is a standard Tcl result indicating whether an error occurred
in the copying process. If an error does occur, the name of the file or
directory which caused the error should be placed in
errorPtr. Note
that,
destPathPtr is the name of the directory-name which should become
the mirror-image of
srcPathPtr. It is not the name of a directory into
which
srcPathPtr should be copied (i.e. the function is much simpler
than the Tcl level
file copy subcommand). Finally, if the filesystem
determines it cannot support the directory copy action, calling
Tcl_SetErrno(EXDEV) and returning a non-
TCL_OK result will tell
Tcl to use its standard fallback mechanisms.
LOADFILEPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSLoadFile call. If not implemented, Tcl will
fall back on a copy to native-temp followed by a
Tcl_FSLoadFile on that
temporary copy. Therefore it need only be implemented if the filesystem can
load code directly, or it can be implemented simply to return
TCL_ERROR
to disable load functionality in this filesystem entirely.
typedef int Tcl_FSLoadFileProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp,
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr,
Tcl_LoadHandle * handlePtr,
Tcl_FSUnloadFileProc * unloadProcPtr);
Returns a standard Tcl completion code. If an error occurs, an error message is
left in the
interp's result. The function dynamically loads a binary
code file into memory. On a successful load, the
handlePtr should be
filled with a token for the dynamically loaded file, and the
unloadProcPtr should be filled in with the address of a procedure. The
unload procedure will be called with the given
Tcl_LoadHandle as its
only parameter when Tcl needs to unload the file. For example, for the native
filesystem, the
Tcl_LoadHandle returned is currently a token which can
be used in the private
TclpFindSymbol to access functions in the new
code. Each filesystem is free to define the
Tcl_LoadHandle as it
requires. Finally, if the filesystem determines it cannot support the file
load action, calling
Tcl_SetErrno(EXDEV) and returning a
non-
TCL_OK result will tell Tcl to use its standard fallback
mechanisms.
UNLOADFILEPROC¶
Function to unload a previously successfully loaded file. If load was
implemented, then this should also be implemented, if there is any cleanup
action required.
typedef void Tcl_FSUnloadFileProc(
Tcl_LoadHandle loadHandle);
GETCWDPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSGetCwd call. Most filesystems need not
implement this. It will usually only be called once, if
getcwd is
called before
chdir. May be NULL.
typedef Tcl_Obj* Tcl_FSGetCwdProc(
Tcl_Interp * interp);
If the filesystem supports a native notion of a current working directory (which
might perhaps change independent of Tcl), this function should return that cwd
as the result, or NULL if the current directory could not be determined (e.g.
the user does not have appropriate permissions on the cwd directory). If NULL
is returned, an error message is left in the
interp's result.
CHDIRPROC¶
Function to process a
Tcl_FSChdir call. If filesystems do not implement
this, it will be emulated by a series of directory access checks. Otherwise,
virtual filesystems which do implement it need only respond with a positive
return result if the
pathPtr is a valid, accessible directory in their
filesystem. They need not remember the result, since that will be
automatically remembered for use by
Tcl_FSGetCwd. Real filesystems
should carry out the correct action (i.e. call the correct system
chdir
API).
typedef int Tcl_FSChdirProc(
Tcl_Obj * pathPtr);
The
Tcl_FSChdirProc changes the applications current working directory to
the value specified in
pathPtr. The function returns -1 on error or 0
on success.
SEE ALSO¶
cd(3tcl), file(3tcl), load(3tcl), open(3tcl), pwd(3tcl), unload(3tcl)
KEYWORDS¶
stat, access, filesystem, vfs, virtual