readonly status conflict with reading

Hi john

When I set on mac a file to readonly, I get nil when I do
FileStream named: 'foo.txt'


Stef

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Stef,

FWIW, the biggest problem I see with this is returning nil rather than raising an exception.  With that omission corrected, there are various ways I could envision it working, probably centered on failing to open a writable stream, but if one asks for a read-only stream, there would be no need for an error.  I don't too much care what the rules are, so long as the system enforces them consistently and tells me when I violate them.

Attached is a partial view of what I have been doing as I find such things in my way.  The goals are to provide entry points that my existing code expects and to (a path, not a destination) never fail silently.

Bill


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Hi john

When I set on mac a file to readonly, I get nil when I do
FileStream named: 'foo.txt'


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On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> Hi john
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> When I set on mac a file to readonly, I get nil when I do
> FileStream named: 'foo.txt'

I guess that's #fileNamed:, not #named:. When you send that method, you're
trying to open the file in read-write mode. If you just want to read from
a file then use #readOnlyFileNamed:.


Levente

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On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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>> Hi john
>>
>> When I set on mac a file to readonly, I get nil when I do
>> FileStream named: 'foo.txt'
>
> I guess that's #fileNamed:, not #named:. When you send that method, you're trying to open the file in read-write mode. If you just want to read from a file then use #readOnlyFileNamed:.

Yes stupid me.
I really do not like this file operation names.

Stef


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