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File metadata API with symlink-awareness #143

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Rufflewind opened this issue Sep 8, 2022 · 0 comments
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File metadata API with symlink-awareness #143

Rufflewind opened this issue Sep 8, 2022 · 0 comments
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type: a-feature-request This is a request for a new feature.

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Rufflewind commented Sep 8, 2022 •
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There is a need for a more general file Metadata API with better awareness of symbolic links:

  • Lots of operations today traverse symbolic links, which is not always what users want.
  • Users may be interested in collecting a snapshot of all the metadata at once (akin to stat(2)), which is more efficient than doing it multiple times and avoids non-atomicity.

There is already a sketch of this API as an internal data type: https://github.com/haskell/directory/blob/master/System/Directory/Internal/Posix.hsc#L150

What needs to be done next is to stabilize this into a usable public API.
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