POSIXPermissions.md

Pathos API Documentation for POSIXPermissions

public struct POSIXPermissions

Represents the POSIX file permission bits. These bits determines read/write/execution access to a file as well as some miscellaneous information.

Conforms to

• Permissions
• ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral
• OptionSet

Initializer

public init(rawValue: mode_t)

Creates a FilePermission from native mode_t.

Properties

public var rawValue: mode_t

The file permission as the native mode_t type. A de-abstraction to help interact with POSIX APIs directly.

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public static let ownerAll: POSIXPermissions

This is equivalent to [.ownerRead, .ownerWrite, .ownerExecute] (S_IRWXU).

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public static let ownerRead: POSIXPermissions

Read permission bit for the owner of the file (S_IRUSR).

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public static let ownerWrite: POSIXPermissions

Write permission bit for the owner of the file (S_IWUSR).

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public static let ownerExecute: POSIXPermissions

Execute (for ordinary files) or search (for directories) permission bit for the owner of the file (S_IXUSR).

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public static let groupAll: POSIXPermissions

This is equivalent to [.groupRead, .groupWrite, .groupExecute] (S_IRWXG).

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public static let groupRead: POSIXPermissions

Read permission bit for the group owner of the file (S_IRGRP).

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public static let groupWrite: POSIXPermissions

Write permission bit for the group owner of the file (S_IWGRP).

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public static let groupExecute: POSIXPermissions

Execute or search permission bit for the group owner of the file (S_IXGRP).

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public static let otherAll: POSIXPermissions

This is equivalent to [.otherRead, .otherWrite, .otherExecute] (S_IRWXO).

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public static let otherRead: POSIXPermissions

Read permission bit for other users (S_IROTH).

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public static let otherWrite: POSIXPermissions

Read permission bit for other users (S_IWOTH).

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public static let otherExecute: POSIXPermissions

Read permission bit for other users (S_IXOTH).

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public static let setUserIDOnExecution: POSIXPermissions

This is the set-user-ID on execute bit. See Process Persona to learm more.

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public static let setGroupIDOnExecution: POSIXPermissions

This is the set-group-ID on execute bit See Process Persona to learm more.

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public static let saveSwappedTextAfterUser: POSIXPermissions

This is the sticky bit.

For a directory it gives permission to delete a file in that directory only if you own that file. Ordinarily, a user can either delete all the files in a directory or cannot delete any of them (based on whether the user has write permission for the directory). The same restriction applies—you must have both write permission for the directory and own the file you want to delete. The one exception is that the owner of the directory can delete any file in the directory, no matter who owns it (provided the owner has given himself write permission for the directory). This is commonly used for the /tmp directory, where anyone may create files but not delete files created by other users.