[squeak-dev] opening a write-only file
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat May 31 17:46:23 UTC 2014
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:00:06AM -0700, Douglas McPherson wrote:
> Is there a way to open a write-only file in Squeak? On both Mac and Linux attempting to open such a file fails.
>
> For example, if you create a write-only file, i.e. in a shell, after cd to default directory
>
> echo nada > foo
> chmod 200 foo
>
> Then from Squeak
>
> StandardFileStream fileNamed: 'foo'
>
> returns nil.
>
> If the file is given read permission (i.e. chmod 600 foo) then Squeak can open it.
>
> Anyone know a workaround?
>
Sure, you can use FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'foo'.
Dave
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