Hi, rust experts. I have an instance of std::fs::File, before I write to file, I need to test if File was opened with write permission. Seems ioctl can be used for this in linux c, But I don't know how to do it in safe rust?

Checking then writing is wrong, though. It introduces a TOCTOU race condition in your code. By the time you actually attempt to write to a supposedly-writeable file, it might have changed permissions in the meantime, leading to hard-to-reproduce and hard-to-debug errors. Really, just try writing to…

I don't know, but why don't you just try writing and see if you get an error?

I think you can use std :: fs :: metadata ? ( and then Permissions in std::fs - Rust )

How to test std::fs::File has write permission

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bigdogs December 2, 2021, 2:32pm 4

emm.. then it will need to handle different kind of system error to check if it was caused by "no permission" if just writing file without first check.

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How to test std::fs::File has write permission

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