#lang scribble/doc @(require "mz.rkt" (for-label framework/preferences racket/runtime-path launcher/launcher setup/dirs)) @(define file-eval (make-base-eval)) @(interaction-eval #:eval file-eval (begin (require racket/file) (define filename (make-temporary-file)))) @title{Filesystem} @;------------------------------------------------------------------------ @section[#:tag "findpaths"]{Locating Paths} @defproc[(find-system-path [kind symbol?]) path?]{ Returns a machine-specific path for a standard type of path specified by @racket[kind], which must be one of the following: @itemize[ @item{@indexed-racket['home-dir] --- the current user's home directory. On Unix and Mac OS X, this directory is determined by expanding the path @filepath{~}, which is expanded by first checking for a @indexed-envvar{HOME} environment variable. If none is defined, the @indexed-envvar{USER} and @indexed-envvar{LOGNAME} environment variables are consulted (in that order) to find a user name, and then system files are consulted to locate the user's home directory. On Windows, the user's home directory is the user-specific profile directory as determined by the Windows registry. If the registry cannot provide a directory for some reason, the value of the @indexed-envvar{USERPROFILE} environment variable is used instead, as long as it refers to a directory that exists. If @envvar{USERPROFILE} also fails, the directory is the one specified by the @indexed-envvar{HOMEDRIVE} and @indexed-envvar{HOMEPATH} environment variables. If those environment variables are not defined, or if the indicated directory still does not exist, the directory containing the current executable is used as the home directory.} @item{@indexed-racket['pref-dir] --- the standard directory for storing the current user's preferences. On Unix, the directory is @filepath{.racket} in the user's home directory. On Windows, it is @filepath{Racket} in the user's application-data folder as specified by the Windows registry; the application-data folder is usually @filepath{Application Data} in the user's profile directory. On Mac OS X, it is @filepath{Library/Preferences} in the user's home directory. This directory might not exist.} @item{@indexed-racket['pref-file] --- a file that contains a symbol-keyed association list of preference values. The file's directory path always matches the result returned for @racket['pref-dir]. The file name is @filepath{racket-prefs.rktd} on Unix and Windows, and it is @filepath{org.racket-lang.prefs.rktd} on Mac OS X. The file's directory might not exist. See also @racket[get-preference].} @item{@indexed-racket['temp-dir] --- the standard directory for storing temporary files. On @|AllUnix|, this is the directory specified by the @indexed-envvar{TMPDIR} environment variable, if it is defined, otherwise it is the first path that exists among @filepath{/var/tmp}, @filepath{/usr/tmp}, and @filepath{/tmp}. On Windows, the result is the directory specified by the @indexed-envvar{TMP} or @indexed-envvar{TEMP} environment variable, if it is defined, otherwise it is the current directory.} @item{@indexed-racket['init-dir] --- the directory containing the initialization file used by the Racket executable. It is the same as the current user's home directory.} @item{@indexed-racket['init-file] --- the file loaded at start-up by the Racket executable. The directory part of the path is the same path as returned for @racket['init-dir]. The file name is platform-specific: @itemize[ @item{@|AllUnix|: @indexed-file{.racketrc}} @item{Windows: @indexed-file{racketrc.rktl}} ]} @item{@indexed-racket['links-file] --- the user-specific @tech{collection links file} for specifying the location of library @tech{collections}. This file is specified by the @indexed-envvar{PLTLINKSFILE} environment variable, and it can be overridden by the @DFlag{links} or @Flag{C} command-line flag. If no environment variable or flag is specified, or if the value is not a legal path name, then this file defaults to @filepath{links.rktd} in the directory reported by @racket[(find-system-path 'addon-dir)].} @item{@indexed-racket['addon-dir] --- a directory for installing user-specific Racket extensions. This directory is specified by the @indexed-envvar{PLTADDONDIR} environment variable, and it can be overridden by the @DFlag{addon} or @Flag{A} command-line flag. If no environment variable or flag is specified, or if the value is not a legal path name, then this directory defaults to @filepath{Library/Racket} in the user's home directory on Mac OS X and @racket['pref-dir] otherwise. This directory might not exist.} @item{@indexed-racket['doc-dir] --- the standard directory for storing the current user's documents. On Unix, it's the same as @racket['home-dir]. On Mac OS X, it's the @filepath{Documents} directory in the user's home directory. On Windows, it is the user's documents folder as specified by the Windows registry; the documents folder is usually @filepath{My Documents} in the user's home directory.} @item{@indexed-racket['desk-dir] --- the directory for the current user's desktop. On Unix, it's the same as @racket['home-dir]. On Windows, it is the user's desktop folder as specified by the Windows registry; the documents folder is usually @filepath{Desktop} in the user's home directory. On Mac OS X, it is the desktop directory, which is specifically @filepath{~/Desktop} on Mac OS X.} @item{@indexed-racket['sys-dir] --- the directory containing the operating system for Windows. On @|AllUnix|, the result is @racket["/"].} @item{@indexed-racket['exec-file] --- the path of the Racket executable as provided by the operating system for the current invocation. For some operating systems, the path can be relative. @margin-note{For GRacket, the executable path is the name of a GRacket executable.}} @item{@indexed-racket['run-file] --- the path of the current executable; this may be different from result for @racket['exec-file] because an alternate path was provided through a @DFlag{name} or @Flag{N} command-line flag to the Racket (or GRacket) executable, or because an embedding executable installed an alternate path. In particular a ``launcher'' script created by @racket[make-racket-launcher] sets this path to the script's path.} @item{@indexed-racket['collects-dir] --- a path to the main collection of libraries (see @secref["collects"]). If this path is relative, then it is relative to the executable as reported by @racket[(find-system-path 'exec-file)]---though the latter could be a soft-link or relative to the user's executable search path, so that the two results should be combined with @racket[find-executable-path]. The @racket['collects-dir] path is normally embedded in the Racket executable, but it can be overridden by the @DFlag{collects} or @Flag{X} command-line flag.} @item{@indexed-racket['orig-dir] --- the current directory at start-up, which can be useful in converting a relative-path result from @racket[(find-system-path 'exec-file)] or @racket[(find-system-path 'run-file)] to a complete path.} ]} @defproc[(path-list-string->path-list [str (or/c string? bytes?)] [default-path-list (listof path?)]) (listof path?)]{ Parses a string or byte string containing a list of paths, and returns a list of path strings. On @|AllUnix|, paths in a path list are separated by a @litchar{:}; on Windows, paths are separated by a @litchar{;}, and all @litchar{"}s in the string are discarded. Whenever the path list contains an empty path, the list @racket[default-path-list] is spliced into the returned list of paths. Parts of @racket[str] that do not form a valid path are not included in the returned list.} @defproc[(find-executable-path [program-sub path-string?] [related-sub (or/c path-string? #f) #f] [deepest? any/c #f]) (or/c path? #f)]{ Finds a path for the executable @racket[program-sub], returning @racket[#f] if the path cannot be found. If @racket[related-sub] is not @racket[#f], then it must be a relative path string, and the path found for @racket[program-sub] must be such that the file or directory @racket[related-sub] exists in the same directory as the executable. The result is then the full path for the found @racket[related-sub], instead of the path for the executable. This procedure is used by the Racket executable to find the standard library collection directory (see @secref["collects"]). In this case, @racket[program] is the name used to start Racket and @racket[related] is @racket["collects"]. The @racket[related-sub] argument is used because, on @|AllUnix|, @racket[program-sub] may involve a sequence of soft links; in this case, @racket[related-sub] determines which link in the chain is relevant. If @racket[related-sub] is not @racket[#f], then when @racket[find-executable-path] does not find a @racket[program-sub] that is a link to another file path, the search can continue with the destination of the link. Further links are inspected until @racket[related-sub] is found or the end of the chain of links is reached. If @racket[deepest?] is @racket[#f] (the default), then the result corresponds to the first path in a chain of links for which @racket[related-sub] is found (and further links are not actually explored); otherwise, the result corresponds to the last link in the chain for which @racket[related-sub] is found. If @racket[program-sub] is a pathless name, @racket[find-executable-path] gets the value of the @indexed-envvar{PATH} environment variable; if this environment variable is defined, @racket[find-executable-path] tries each path in @envvar{PATH} as a prefix for @racket[program-sub] using the search algorithm described above for path-containing @racket[program-sub]s. If the @envvar{PATH} environment variable is not defined, @racket[program-sub] is prefixed with the current directory and used in the search algorithm above. (On Windows, the current directory is always implicitly the first item in @envvar{PATH}, so @racket[find-executable-path] checks the current directory first on Windows.)} @;------------------------------------------------------------------------ @section[#:tag "fileutils"]{Files} @defproc[(file-exists? [path path-string?]) boolean?]{ Returns @racket[#t] if a file (not a directory) @racket[path] exists, @racket[#f] otherwise. On Windows, @racket[file-exists?] reports @racket[#t] for all variations of the special filenames (e.g., @racket["LPT1"], @racket["x:/baddir/LPT1"]).} @defproc[(link-exists? [path path-string?]) boolean?]{ Returns @racket[#t] if a link @racket[path] exists (@|AllUnix|), @racket[#f] otherwise. The predicates @racket[file-exists?] or @racket[directory-exists?] work on the final destination of a link or series of links, while @racket[link-exists?] only follows links to resolve the base part of @racket[path] (i.e., everything except the last name in the path). This procedure never raises the @racket[exn:fail:filesystem] exception.} @defproc[(delete-file [path path-string?]) void?]{ Deletes the file with path @racket[path] if it exists, otherwise the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem]. If @racket[path] is a link, the link is deleted rather than the destination of the link.} @defproc[(rename-file-or-directory [old path-string?] [new path-string?] [exists-ok? any/c #f]) void?]{ Renames the file or directory with path @racket[old]---if it exists---to the path @racket[new]. If the file or directory is not renamed successfully, the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem]. This procedure can be used to move a file/directory to a different directory (on the same disk) as well as rename a file/directory within a directory. Unless @racket[exists-ok?] is provided as a true value, @racket[new] cannot refer to an existing file or directory. Even if @racket[exists-ok?] is true, @racket[new] cannot refer to an existing file when @racket[old] is a directory, and vice versa. If @racket[new] exists and is replaced, the replacement is atomic on Unix and Mac OS X, but it is not guaranteed to be atomic on Windows. Furthermore, if @racket[new] exists and is opened by any process for reading or writing, then attempting to replace it will typically fail on Windows. If @racket[old] is a link, the link is renamed rather than the destination of the link, and it counts as a file for replacing any existing @racket[new].} @defproc[(file-or-directory-modify-seconds [path path-string?] [secs-n (or/c exact-integer? #f) #f] [fail-thunk (-> any) (lambda () (raise (make-exn:fail:filesystem ....)))]) any]{ Returns the file or directory's last modification date in seconds since midnight UTC, January 1, 1970 (see also @secref["time"]) when @racket[secs-n] is not provided or is @racket[#f]. For FAT filesystems on Windows, directories do not have modification dates. Therefore, the creation date is returned for a directory, but the modification date is returned for a file. If @racket[secs-n] is provided and not @racket[#f], the access and modification times of @racket[path] are set to the given time. On error (e.g., if no such file exists), @racket[fail-thunk] is called, and the default @racket[fail-thunk] raises @racket[exn:fail:filesystem].} @defproc*[([(file-or-directory-permissions [path path-string?] [mode #f #f]) (listof (or/c 'read 'write 'execute))] [(file-or-directory-permissions [path path-string?] [mode 'bits]) (integer-in 0 #xFFFF)] [(file-or-directory-permissions [path path-string?] [mode (integer-in 0 #xFFFF)]) void])]{ When given one argument or @racket[#f] as the second argument, returns a list containing @indexed-racket['read], @indexed-racket['write], and/or @indexed-racket['execute] to indicate permission the given file or directory path by the current user and group. On @|AllUnix|, permissions are checked for the current effective user instead of the real user. If @racket['bits] is supplied as the second argument, the result is a platform-specific integer encoding of the file or directory properties (mostly permissions), and the result is independent of the current user and group. The lowest nine bits of the encoding are somewhat portable, reflecting permissions for the file or directory's owner, members of the file or directory's group, or other users: @itemlist[ @item{@racketvalfont{#o100} : owner has read permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o200} : owner has write permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o400} : owner has execute permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o010} : group has read permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o020} : group has write permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o040} : group has execute permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o001} : others have read permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o002} : others have write permission} @item{@racketvalfont{#o004} : others have execute permission} ] See also @racket[user-read-bit], etc. On Windows, permissions from all three (owner, group, and others) are always the same, and read and execute permission are always available. On @|AllUnix|, higher bits have a platform-specific meaning. If an integer is supplied as the second argument, its is used as an encoding of properties (mostly permissions) to install for the file. In all modes, the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem] on error (e.g., if no such file exists).} @defproc[(file-or-directory-identity [path path-string?] [as-link? any/c #f]) exact-positive-integer?]{ @index['("inode")]{Returns} a number that represents the identity of @racket[path] in terms of the device and file or directory that it accesses. This function can be used to check whether two paths correspond to the same filesystem entity under the assumption that the path's entity selection does not change. If @racket[as-link?] is a true value, then if @racket[path] refers to a filesystem link, the identity of the link is returned instead of the identity of the referenced file or directory (if any).} @defproc[(file-size [path path-string?]) exact-nonnegative-integer?]{ Returns the (logical) size of the specified file in bytes. On Mac OS X, this size excludes the resource-fork size. On error (e.g., if no such file exists), the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem].} @defproc[(copy-file [src path-string?] [dest path-string?] [exists-ok? any/c #f]) void?]{ Creates the file @racket[dest] as a copy of @racket[src], if @racket[dest] does not already exist. If @racket[dest] already exists and @racket[exists-ok?] is @racket[#f], the copy fails with @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem:exists?]; otherwise, if @racket[dest] exists, its content is replaced with the content of @racket[src]. File permissions are transferred from @racket[src] to @racket[dest]; on Windows, the modification time of @racket[src] is also transferred to @racket[dest]. If @racket[src] refers to a link, the target of the link is copied, rather than the link itself; if @racket[dest] refers to a link and @racket[exists-ok?] is true, the target of the link is updated.} @defproc[(make-file-or-directory-link [to path-string?] [path path-string?]) void?]{ Creates a link @racket[path] to @racket[to] on @|AllUnix|. The creation will fail if @racket[path] already exists. The @racket[to] need not refer to an existing file or directory, and @racket[to] is not expanded before writing the link. If the link is not created successfully,the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem]. On Windows, the @exnraise[exn:fail:unsupported] always.} @;------------------------------------------------------------------------ @section[#:tag "directories"]{Directories} See also: @racket[rename-file-or-directory], @racket[file-or-directory-modify-seconds], @racket[file-or-directory-permissions]. @defparam[current-directory path path-string?]{ A @tech{parameter} that determines the current directory for resolving relative paths. When the parameter procedure is called to set the current directory, the path argument is @tech{cleanse}d using @racket[cleanse-path], simplified using @racket[simplify-path], and then converted to a directory path with @racket[path->directory-path]; cleansing and simplification raise an exception if the path is ill-formed. Thus, the current value of @racket[current-directory] is always a cleansed, simplified, complete, directory path. The path is not checked for existence when the parameter is set.} @defproc[(current-drive) path?]{ Returns the current drive name Windows. For other platforms, the @exnraise[exn:fail:unsupported]. The current drive is always the drive of the current directory.} @defproc[(directory-exists? [path path-string?]) boolean?]{ Returns @racket[#t] if @racket[path] refers to a directory, @racket[#f] otherwise.} @defproc[(make-directory [path path-string?]) void?]{ Creates a new directory with the path @racket[path]. If the directory is not created successfully, the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem].} @defproc[(delete-directory [path path-string?]) void?]{ Deletes an existing directory with the path @racket[path]. If the directory is not deleted successfully, the @exnraise[exn:fail:filesystem].} @defproc[(directory-list [path path-string? (current-directory)] [#:build? build? any/c #f]) (listof path?)]{ @margin-note{See also the @racket[in-directory] sequence constructor.} Returns a list of all files and directories in the directory specified by @racket[path]. If @racket[build?] is @racket[#f], the resulting paths are all @tech{path elements}; otherwise, the individual results are combined with @racket[path] using @racket[build-path]. On Windows, an element of the result list may start with @litchar{\\?\REL\\}.} @defproc[(filesystem-root-list) (listof path?)]{ Returns a list of all current root directories. Obtaining this list can be particularly slow on Windows.} @;------------------------------------------------------------------------ @section[#:tag "runtime-path"]{Declaring Paths Needed at Run Time} @note-lib-only[racket/runtime-path] The @racketmodname[racket/runtime-path] library provides forms for accessing files and directories at run time using a path that are usually relative to an enclosing source file. Unlike using @racket[collection-path], @racket[define-runtime-path] exposes each run-time path to tools like the executable and distribution creators, so that files and directories needed at run time are carried along in a distribution. In addition to the bindings described below, @racketmodname[racket/runtime-path] provides @racket[#%datum] in @tech{phase level} 1, since string constants are often used as compile-time expressions with @racket[define-runtime-path]. @defform[(define-runtime-path id expr)]{ Uses @racket[expr] as both a compile-time (i.e., @tech{phase} 1) expression and a run-time (i.e., @tech{phase} 0) expression. In either context, @racket[expr] should produce a path, a string that represents a path, a list of the form @racket[(list 'lib _str ...+)], or a list of the form @racket[(list 'so _str)]. For run time, @racket[id] is bound to a path that is based on the result of @racket[expr]. The path is normally computed by taking a relative path result from @racket[expr] and adding it to a path for the enclosing file (which is computed as described below). However, tools like the executable creator can also arrange (by colluding with @racketmodname[racket/runtime-path]) to have a different base path substituted in a generated executable. If @racket[expr] produces an absolute path, it is normally returned directly, but again may be replaced by an executable creator. In all cases, the executable creator preserves the relative locations of all paths. When @racket[expr] produces a relative or absolute path, then the path bound to @racket[id] is always an absolute path. If @racket[expr] produces a list of the form @racket[(list 'lib _str ...+)], the value bound to @racket[id] is an absolute path. The path refers to a collection-based file similar to using the value as a @tech{module path}. If @racket[expr] produces a list of the form @racket[(list 'so _str)], the value bound to @racket[id] can be either @racket[_str] or an absolute path; it is an absolute path when adding the platform-specific shared-library extension --- as produced by @racket[(system-type 'so-suffix)] --- and then searching in the Racket-specific shared-object library directories (as determined by @racket[get-lib-search-dirs]) locates the path. In this way, shared-object libraries that are installed specifically for Racket get carried along in distributions. If @racket[expr] produces a list of the form @racket[(list 'module _module-path _var-ref)], the value bound to @racket[id] is a @tech{module path index}, where @racket[_module-path] is treated as relative (if it is relative) to the module that is the home of the @tech{variable reference} @racket[_var-ref], where @racket[_var-ref] can be @racket[#f] if @racket[_module-path] is absolute. In an executable, the corresponding module is carried along, including all of its dependencies. For compile-time, the @racket[expr] result is used by an executable creator---but not the result when the containing module is compiled. Instead, @racket[expr] is preserved in the module as a compile-time expression (in the sense of @racket[begin-for-syntax]). Later, at the time that an executable is created, the compile-time portion of the module is executed (again), and the result of @racket[expr] is the file to be included with the executable. The reason for the extra compile-time execution is that the result of @racket[expr] might be platform-dependent, so the result should not be stored in the (platform-independent) bytecode form of the module; the platform at executable-creation time, however, is the same as at run time for the executable. Note that @racket[expr] is still evaluated at run-time; consequently, avoid procedures like @racket[collection-path], which depends on the source installation, and instead use relative paths and forms like @racket[(list 'lib _str ...+)]. If a path is needed only on some platforms and not on others, use @racket[define-runtime-path-list] with an @racket[expr] that produces an empty list on platforms where the path is not needed. Beware that @racket[define-runtime-path] in a @tech{phase level} other than 0 does not cooperate properly with an executable creator. To work around that limitation, put @racket[define-runtime-path] in a separate module---perhaps a @tech{submodule} created by @racket[module]---then export the definition, and then the module containing the definition can be @racket[require]d into any phase level. Using @racket[define-runtime-path] in a @tech{phase level} other than 0 logs a warning at expansion time. The enclosing path for a @racket[define-runtime-path] is determined as follows from the @racket[define-runtime-path] syntactic form: @itemize[ @item{If the form has a source module according to @racket[syntax-source-module], then the source location is determined by preserving the original expression as a syntax object, extracting its source module path at run time (again using @racket[syntax-source-module]), and then resolving the resulting module path index.} @item{If the expression has no source module, the @racket[syntax-source] location associated with the form is used, if is a string or path.} @item{If no source module is available, and @racket[syntax-source] produces no path, then @racket[current-load-relative-directory] is used if it is not @racket[#f]. Finally, @racket[current-directory] is used if all else fails.} ] In the latter two cases, the path is normally preserved in (platform-specific) byte form. If it is is within the result of @racket[find-collects-dir], however, it the path is recorded relative to @racket[(find-collects-dir)], and it is reconstructed using @racket[(find-collects-dir)] at run time. Examples: @racketblock[ (code:comment @#,t{Access a file @filepath{data.txt} at run-time that is originally}) (code:comment @#,t{located in the same directory as the module source file:}) (define-runtime-path data-file "data.txt") (define (read-data) (with-input-from-file data-file (lambda () (read-bytes (file-size data-file))))) (code:comment @#,t{Load a platform-specific shared object (using @racket[ffi-lib])}) (code:comment @#,t{that is located in a platform-specific sub-directory of the}) (code:comment @#,t{module's source directory:}) (define-runtime-path libfit-path (build-path "compiled" "native" (system-library-subpath #f) (path-replace-suffix "libfit" (system-type 'so-suffix)))) (define libfit (ffi-lib libfit-path)) (code:comment @#,t{Load a platform-specific shared object that might be installed}) (code:comment @#,t{as part of the operating system, or might be installed}) (code:comment @#,t{specifically for Racket:}) (define-runtime-path libssl-so (case (system-type) [(windows) '(so "ssleay32")] [else '(so "libssl")])) (define libssl (ffi-lib libssl-so)) ]} @defform[(define-runtime-paths (id ...) expr)]{ Like @racket[define-runtime-path], but declares and binds multiple paths at once. The @racket[expr] should produce as many values as @racket[id]s.} @defform[(define-runtime-path-list id expr)]{ Like @racket[define-runtime-path], but @racket[expr] should produce a list of paths.} @defform[(define-runtime-module-path-index id module-path-expr)]{ Similar to @racket[define-runtime-path], but @racket[id] is bound to a @tech{module path index} that encapsulates the result of @racket[module-path-expr] relative to the enclosing module. Use @racket[define-runtime-module-path] to bind a module path that is passed to a reflective function like @racket[dynamic-require] while also creating a module dependency for building and distributing executables.} @defform[(define-runtime-module-path id module-path)]{ Similar to @racket[define-runtime-path], but @racket[id] is bound to a @tech{resolved module path}. The @tech{resolved module path} for @racket[id] corresponds to @racket[module-path] (with the same syntax as a module path for @racket[require]), which can be relative to the enclosing module. The @racket[define-runtime-module-path-index] form is usually preferred, because it creates a weaker link to the referenced module. Unlike @racket[define-runtime-module-path-index], the @racket[define-runtime-module-path] form creates a @racket[for-label] dependency from an enclosing module to @racket[module-path]. Since the dependency is merely @racket[for-label], @racket[module-path] is not @tech{instantiate}d or @tech{visit}ed when the enclosing module is @tech{instantiate}d or @tech{visit}ed (unless such a dependency is created by other @racket[require]s), but the code for the referenced module is loaded when the enclosing module is loaded.} @defform[(runtime-paths module-path)]{ This form is mainly for use by tools such as executable builders. It expands to a quoted list containing the run-time paths declared by @racket[module-path], returning the compile-time results of the declaration @racket[expr]s, except that paths are converted to byte strings. The enclosing module must require (directly or indirectly) the module specified by @racket[module-path], which is an unquoted module path. The resulting list does @emph{not} include module paths bound through @racket[define-runtime-module-path].} @;------------------------------------------------------------------------ @section[#:tag "file-lib"]{More File and Directory Utilities} @note-lib[racket/file] @defproc[(file->string [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary]) string?]{ Reads all characters from @racket[path] and returns them as a string. The @racket[mode-flag] argument is the same as for @racket[open-input-file].} @defproc[(file->bytes [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary]) bytes?]{ Reads all characters from @racket[path] and returns them as a @tech{byte string}. The @racket[mode-flag] argument is the same as for @racket[open-input-file].} @defproc[(file->value [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary]) any]{ Reads a single S-expression from @racket[path] using @racket[read]. The @racket[mode-flag] argument is the same as for @racket[open-input-file].} @defproc[(file->list [path path-string?] [proc (input-port? . -> . any/c) read] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary]) (listof any/c)]{ Repeatedly calls @racket[proc] to consume the contents of @racket[path], until @racket[eof] is produced. The @racket[mode-flag] argument is the same as for @racket[open-input-file]. } @defproc[(file->lines [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary] [#:line-mode line-mode (or/c 'linefeed 'return 'return-linefeed 'any 'any-one) 'any]) (listof string?)]{ Read all characters from @racket[path], breaking them into lines. The @racket[line-mode] argument is the same as the second argument to @racket[read-line], but the default is @racket['any] instead of @racket['linefeed]. The @racket[mode-flag] argument is the same as for @racket[open-input-file].} @defproc[(file->bytes-lines [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary] [#:line-mode line-mode (or/c 'linefeed 'return 'return-linefeed 'any 'any-one) 'any]) (listof bytes?)]{ Like @racket[file->lines], but reading bytes and collecting them into lines like @racket[read-bytes-line].} @defproc[(display-to-file [v any/c] [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary] [#:exists exists-flag (or/c 'error 'append 'update 'replace 'truncate 'truncate/replace) 'error]) void?]{ Uses @racket[display] to print @racket[v] to @racket[path]. The @racket[mode-flag] and @racket[exists-flag] arguments are the same as for @racket[open-output-file].} @defproc[(write-to-file [v any/c] [path path-string?] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary] [#:exists exists-flag (or/c 'error 'append 'update 'replace 'truncate 'truncate/replace) 'error]) void?]{ Like @racket[display-to-file], but using @racket[write] instead of @racket[display].} @defproc[(display-lines-to-file [lst list?] [path path-string?] [#:separator separator any/c #"\n"] [#:mode mode-flag (or/c 'binary 'text) 'binary] [#:exists exists-flag (or/c 'error 'append 'update 'replace 'truncate 'truncate/replace) 'error]) void?]{ Displays each element of @racket[lst] to @racket[path], adding @racket[separator] after each element. The @racket[mode-flag] and @racket[exists-flag] arguments are the same as for @racket[open-output-file].} @defproc[(copy-directory/files [src path-string?] [dest path-string?]) void?]{ Copies the file or directory @racket[src] to @racket[dest], raising @racket[exn:fail:filesystem] if the file or directory cannot be copied, possibly because @racket[dest] exists already. If @racket[src] is a directory, the copy applies recursively to the directory's content. If a source is a link, the target of the link is copied rather than the link itself.} @defproc[(delete-directory/files [path path-string?]) void?]{ Deletes the file or directory specified by @racket[path], raising @racket[exn:fail:filesystem] if the file or directory cannot be deleted. If @racket[path] is a directory, then @racket[delete-directory/files] is first applied to each file and directory in @racket[path] before the directory is deleted.} @defproc[(find-files [predicate (path? . -> . any/c)] [start-path (or/c path-string? #f) #f]) (listof path?)]{ Traverses the filesystem starting at @racket[start-path] and creates a list of all files and directories for which @racket[predicate] returns true. If @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f], then the traversal starts from @racket[(current-directory)]. In the resulting list, each directory precedes its content. The @racket[predicate] procedure is called with a single argument for each file or directory. If @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f], the argument is a pathname string that is relative to the current directory. Otherwise, it is a path building on @racket[start-path]. Consequently, supplying @racket[(current-directory)] for @racket[start-path] is different from supplying @racket[#f], because @racket[predicate] receives complete paths in the former case and relative paths in the latter. Another difference is that @racket[predicate] is not called for the current directory when @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f]. The @racket[find-files] traversal follows soft links. To avoid following links, use the more general @racket[fold-files] procedure. If @racket[start-path] does not refer to an existing file or directory, then @racket[predicate] will be called exactly once with @racket[start-path] as the argument. The @racket[find-files] procedure raises and exception if it encounters a directory for which @racket[directory-list] fails.} @defproc[(pathlist-closure [path-list (listof path-string?)]) (listof path?)]{ Given a list of paths, either absolute or relative to the current directory, returns a list such that @itemize[ @item{if a nested path is given, all of its ancestors are also included in the result (but the same ancestor is not added twice);} @item{if a path refers to directory, all of its descendants are also included in the result;} @item{ancestor directories appear before their descendants in the result list.} ]} @defproc[(fold-files [proc (or/c (path? (or/c 'file 'dir 'link) any/c . -> . any/c) (path? (or/c 'file 'dir 'link) any/c . -> . (values any/c any/c)))] [init-val any/c] [start-path (or/c path-string? #f) #f] [follow-links? any/c #t]) any]{ Traverses the filesystem starting at @racket[start-path], calling @racket[proc] on each discovered file, directory, and link. If @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f], then the traversal starts from @racket[(current-directory)]. The @racket[proc] procedure is called with three arguments for each file, directory, or link: @itemize[ @item{If @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f], the first argument is a pathname string that is relative to the current directory. Otherwise, the first argument is a pathname that starts with @racket[start-path]. Consequently, supplying @racket[(current-directory)] for @racket[start-path] is different from supplying @racket[#f], because @racket[proc] receives complete paths in the former case and relative paths in the latter. Another difference is that @racket[proc] is not called for the current directory when @racket[start-path] is @racket[#f].} @item{The second argument is a symbol, either @racket['file], @racket['dir], or @racket['link]. The second argument can be @racket['link] when @racket[follow-links?] is @racket[#f], in which case the filesystem traversal does not follow links. If @racket[follow-links?] is @racket[#t], then @racket[proc] will only get a @racket['link] as a second argument when it encounters a dangling symbolic link (one that does not resolve to an existing file or directory).} @item{The third argument is the accumulated result. For the first call to @racket[proc], the third argument is @racket[init-val]. For the second call to @racket[proc] (if any), the third argument is the result from the first call, and so on. The result of the last call to @racket[proc] is the result of @racket[fold-files].} ] The @racket[proc] argument is used in an analogous way to the procedure argument of @racket[foldl], where its result is used as the new accumulated result. There is an exception for the case of a directory (when the second argument is @racket['dir]): in this case the procedure may return two values, the second indicating whether the recursive scan should include the given directory or not. If it returns a single value, the directory is scanned. In the cases of files or links (when the second argument is @racket['file] or @racket['link]), a second value is permitted but ignored. If the @racket[start-path] is provided but no such path exists, or if paths disappear during the scan, then an exception is raised.} @defproc[(make-directory* [path path-string?]) void?]{ Creates directory specified by @racket[path], creating intermediate directories as necessary.} @defproc[(make-temporary-file [template string? "rkttmp~a"] [copy-from-filename (or/c path-string? #f 'directory) #f] [directory (or/c path-string? #f) #f]) path?]{ Creates a new temporary file and returns a pathname string for the file. Instead of merely generating a fresh file name, the file is actually created; this prevents other threads or processes from picking the same temporary name. The @racket[template] argument must be a format string suitable for use with @racket[format] and one additional string argument (where the string contains only digits). If the resulting string is a relative path, it is combined with the result of @racket[(find-system-path 'temp-dir)], unless @racket[directory] is provided and non-@racket[#f], in which case the file name generated from @racket[template] is combined with @racket[directory] to obtain a full path. The @racket[template] argument's default is only the string @racket["rkttmp~a"] when there is no source location information for the callsite of @racket[make-temporary-file] (or if @racket[make-temporary-file] is used in a higher-order position). If there is such information, then the template string is based on the source location. If @racket[copy-from-filename] is provided as path, the temporary file is created as a copy of the named file (using @racket[copy-file]). If @racket[copy-from-filename] is @racket[#f], the temporary file is created as empty. If @racket[copy-from-filename] is @racket['directory], then the temporary ``file'' is created as a directory. When a temporary file is created, it is not opened for reading or writing when the pathname is returned. The client program calling @racket[make-temporary-file] is expected to open the file with the desired access and flags (probably using the @racket['truncate] flag; see @racket[open-output-file]) and to delete it when it is no longer needed.} @defproc[(get-preference [name symbol?] [failure-thunk (-> any) (lambda () #f)] [flush-mode any/c 'timestamp] [filename (or/c string-path? #f) #f] [#:use-lock? use-lock? any/c #t] [#:timeout-lock-there timeout-lock-there (or/c (path? . -> . any) #f) #f] [#:lock-there lock-there (or/c (path? . -> . any) #f) (make-handle-get-preference-locked 0.01 name failure-thunk flush-mode filename #:lock-there timeout-lock-there)]) any]{ Extracts a preference value from the file designated by @racket[(find-system-path 'pref-file)], or by @racket[filename] if it is provided and is not @racket[#f]. In the former case, if the preference file doesn't exist, @racket[get-preferences] attempts to read an @elemref["old-prefs"]{old preferences file}, and then a @filepath{racket-prefs.rktd} file in the @filepath{defaults} collection, instead. If none of those files exists, the preference set is empty. The preference file should contain a list of symbol--value lists written with the default parameter settings. Keys starting with @racket[racket:], @racket[mzscheme:], @racket[mred:], and @racket[plt:] in any letter case are reserved for use by Racket implementors. If the preference file does not contain a list of symbol--value lists, an error is logged via @racket[log-error] and @racket[failure-thunk] is called. The result of @racket[get-preference] is the value associated with @racket[name] if it exists in the association list, or the result of calling @racket[failure-thunk] otherwise. Preference settings are cached (weakly) across calls to @racket[get-preference], using @racket[(path->complete-path filename)] as a cache key. If @racket[flush-mode] is provided as @racket[#f], the cache is used instead of re-consulting the preferences file. If @racket[flush-mode] is provided as @racket['timestamp] (the default), then the cache is used only if the file has a timestamp that is the same as the last time the file was read. Otherwise, the file is re-consulted. On platforms for which @racket[preferences-lock-file-mode] returns @racket['file-lock] and when @racket[use-lock?] is true, preference-file reading is guarded by a lock; multiple readers can share the lock, but writers take the lock exclusively. If the preferences file cannot be read because the lock is unavailable, @racket[lock-there] is called on the path of the lock file; if @racket[lock-there] is @racket[#f], an exception is raised. The default @racket[lock-there] handler retries about 5 times (with increasing delays between each attempt) before trying @racket[timeout-lock-there], and the default @racket[timeout-lock-there] triggers an exception. See also @racket[put-preferences]. For a more elaborate preference system, see @racket[preferences:get]. @elemtag["old-prefs"]{@bold{Old preferences files}}: When a @racket[filename] is not provided and the file indicated by @racket[(find-system-path 'pref-file)] does not exist, the following paths are checked for compatibility with old versions of Racket: @itemlist[ @item{Windows: @racket[(build-path (find-system-path 'pref-dir) 'up "PLT Scheme" "plt-prefs.ss")]} @item{Mac OS X: @racket[(build-path (find-system-path 'pref-dir) "org.plt-scheme.prefs.ss")]} @item{Unix: @racket[(expand-user-path "~/.plt-scheme/plt-prefs.ss")]} ]} @defproc[(put-preferences [names (listof symbol?)] [vals list?] [locked-proc (or/c #f (path? . -> . any)) #f] [filename (or/c #f path-string?) #f]) void?]{ Installs a set of preference values and writes all current values to the preference file designated by @racket[(find-system-path 'pref-file)], or @racket[filename] if it is supplied and not @racket[#f]. The @racket[names] argument supplies the preference names, and @racket[vals] must have the same length as @racket[names]. Each element of @racket[vals] must be an instance of a built-in data type whose @racket[write] output is @racket[read]able (i.e., the @racket[print-unreadable] parameter is set to @racket[#f] while writing preferences). Current preference values are read from the preference file before updating, and a write lock is held starting before the file read, and lasting until after the preferences file is updated. The lock is implemented by the existence of a file in the same directory as the preference file; see @racket[preferences-lock-file-mode] for more information. If the directory of the preferences file does not already exist, it is created. If the write lock is already held, then @racket[locked-proc] is called with a single argument: the path of the lock file. The default @racket[locked-proc] (used when the @racket[locked-proc] argument is @racket[#f]) reports an error; an alternative thunk might wait a while and try again, or give the user the choice to delete the lock file (in case a previous update attempt encountered disaster and locks are implemented by the presence of the lock file). If @racket[filename] is @racket[#f] or not supplied, and the preference file does not already exist, then values read from the @filepath{defaults} collection (if any) are written for preferences that are not mentioned in @racket[names].} @defproc[(preferences-lock-file-mode) (or/c 'exists 'file-lock)]{ Reports the way that the lock file is used to implement preference-file locking on the current platform. The @racket['exists] mode is currently used on all platforms except Windows. In @racket['exists] mode, the existence of the lock file indicates that a write lock is held, and readers need no lock (because the preferences file is atomically updated via @racket[rename-file-or-directory]). The @racket['file-lock] mode is currently used on Windows. In @racket['file-lock] mode, shared and exclusive locks (in the sense of @racket[port-try-file-lock?]) on the lock file reflect reader and writer locks on the preference-file content. (The preference file itself is not locked, because a lock would interfere with replacing the file via @racket[rename-file-or-directory].)} @defproc[(make-handle-get-preference-locked [delay real?] [name symbol?] [failure-thunk (-> any) (lambda () #f)] [flush-mode any/c 'timestamp] [filename (or/c path-string? #f) #f] [#:lock-there lock-there (or/c (path? . -> . any) #f) #f] [#:max-delay max-delay real? 0.2]) (path-string? . -> . any)]{ Creates a procedure suitable for use as the @racket[#:lock-there] argument to @racket[get-preference], where the @racket[name], @racket[failure-thunk], @racket[flush-mode], and @racket[filename] are all passed on to @racket[get-preference] by the result procedure to retry the preferences lookup. Before calling @racket[get-preference], the result procedure uses @racket[(sleep delay)] to pause. Then, if @racket[(* 2 delay)] is less than @racket[max-delay], the result procedure calls @racket[make-handle-get-preference-locked] to generate a new retry procedure to pass to @racket[get-preference], but with a @racket[delay] of @racket[(* 2 delay)]. If @racket[(* 2 delay)] is not less than @racket[max-delay], then @racket[get-preference] is called with the given @racket[lock-there], instead.} @defproc[(call-with-file-lock/timeout [filename (or/c path-string? #f)] [kind (or/c 'shared 'exclusive)] [thunk (-> any)] [failure-thunk (-> any)] [#:lock-file lock-file (or/c #f path-string?) #f] [#:delay delay (and/c real? (not/c negative?)) 0.01] [#:max-delay max-delay (and/c real? (not/c negative?)) 0.2]) any]{ Obtains a lock for the filename @racket[lock-file] and then calls @racket[thunk]. The @racket[filename] argument specifies a file path prefix that is used only to generate the lock filename when @racket[lock-file] is @racket[#f]. Specifically, when @racket[lock-file] is @racket[#f], then @racket[call-with-file-lock/timeout] uses @racket[make-lock-file-name] to build the lock filename. If the lock file does not yet exist, it is created; beware that the lock file is @emph{not} deleted by @racket[call-with-file-lock/timeout]. When @racket[thunk] returns, @racket[call-with-file-lock/timeout] releases the lock, returning the result of @racket[thunk]. The @racket[call-with-file-lock/timeout] function will retry after @racket[delay] seconds and continue retrying with exponential backoff until delay reaches @racket[max-delay]. If @racket[call-with-file-lock/timeout] fails to obtain the lock, @racket[failure-thunk] is called in tail position. The @racket[kind] argument specifies whether the lock is @racket['shared] or @racket['exclusive] in the sense of @racket[port-try-file-lock?]. } @examples[ #:eval file-eval (call-with-file-lock/timeout filename 'exclusive (lambda () (printf "File is locked\n")) (lambda () (printf "Failed to obtain lock for file\n"))) (call-with-file-lock/timeout #f 'exclusive (lambda () (call-with-file-lock/timeout filename 'shared (lambda () (printf "Shouldn't get here\n")) (lambda () (printf "Failed to obtain lock for file\n")))) (lambda () (printf "Shouldn't get here either\n")) #:lock-file (make-lock-file-name filename))] @defproc*[([(make-lock-file-name [path (or path-string? path-for-some-system?)]) path?] [(make-lock-file-name [dir (or path-string? path-for-some-system?)] [name path-element?]) path?])]{ Creates a lock filename by prepending @racket["_LOCK"] on Windows or @racket[".LOCK"] on other platforms to the file portion of the path. @examples[ #:eval file-eval (make-lock-file-name "/home/george/project/important-file")]} @deftogether[( @defthing[user-read-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o400}] @defthing[user-write-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o200}] @defthing[user-execute-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o100}] @defthing[group-read-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o040}] @defthing[group-write-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o020}] @defthing[group-execute-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o010}] @defthing[other-read-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o004}] @defthing[other-write-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o002}] @defthing[other-execute-bit @#,racketvalfont{#o001}] )]{ Constants that are useful with @racket[file-or-directory-permissions] and bitwise operations such as @racket[bitwise-ior], and @racket[bitwise-and].} @(interaction-eval #:eval file-eval (begin (delete-file filename) (delete-file (make-lock-file-name filename)))) @(close-eval file-eval)