A git bare repo (detailed here) has no relation with filemode. A bare repository is used as a target, to push to. You can push to a bare repository, because since it has no working tree: there is no concern about maintaining said working tree in sync with what you just pushed. what is a … Read more
Question 2: I suggest using a subfolder in Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonAppData (maps to C:\ProgramData on Windows7 by default). This is a hidden folder. Question 3: Put those files into Environment.SpecialFolder.AppData(maps to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming by default, hidden folder), if you expect that the user does not intend to backup / modify those. Some games also put their save games … Read more
As of Python >=3.2, os.makedirs() can take a third optional argument exist_ok: os.makedirs(mydir, exist_ok=True)
Finally I did a compilation of some quotations and it is done.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Security scripts run in a sandbox in which they can only perform Web-related actions, not general-purpose programming tasks like creating files https://www.us-cert.gov/publications/securing-your-web-browser JavaScript, also known as ECMAScript, is a scripting language that is used to make websites more interactive. There are specifications in … Read more
Use the FileSystemWatcher class – it does what you want. It won’t tell you which bytes in the file changed, but it will tell you which files have changes. From the doc: Use FileSystemWatcher to watch for changes in a specified directory. You can watch for changes in files and subdirectories of the specified directory. … Read more
It depends on what filesystem, for example /system and /data are yaffs2 while /sdcard is vfat. This is the output of mount: rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs … Read more
I agree that hard-linking folders/directories can cause problems if not careful, but they have a very definite advantage – Time Machine is a perfect example. Without them it simply would not be practical as the duplication of redundant versions of files would very quickly consume even the largest of disks. Snow Leopard can create hard … Read more
The terminology used is a bit different from what you’d find in the Unix world, however in terms of having an integer that uniquely identifies a file, NTFS and some Windows API expose the concept of “file IDs” which is similar. You can query the file ID of an open handle via GetFileInformationByHandle. See nFileIndexHigh, … Read more
As others have said, Dir::foreach is a good option here. However, note that Dir::foreach and Dir::entries will always include . and .. (the current and parent directories). You will generally not want to work on them, so you can use Dir::each_child or Dir::children (as suggested by ma11hew28) or do something like this: Dir.foreach(‘/path/to/dir’) do |filename| … Read more
Since Java 1.7 you can use the Watch Service API to register for directory events. It is part of Java’s New I/O (NIO) library and does not require any additional resources. An example how to use the API can be found in the official documentation. After registering the WatchService you can retrieve events for the … Read more