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Platform-specific methods (quoting etc.) for local paths
First of all, there are some specific APIs for paths (say, GetCompressedFileSize
on Windows, also Unix rights and Windows ACLs) which we may seek to implement.
Second: there are several absolutely different ways to convert paths to strings. For certain Windows APIs, it's important to handle these properly (i.e. quote paths, or append a UNC prefix where appropriate, see Vacuum's AbsolutePath
as inspiration).
Obviously, not all users want the platform-specific parts of the file path API, so we may include some separate platform-specific packages for all of this.
I imagine our users calling something like
LocalPath fsp = …;
MyNativeFuncs.DoWinApiOperation(fsp.QuoteWinApi()); // QuoteWinApi is an extension
Or, say
LocalPath fsp = …;
WindowsACL acl = fsp.GetAcl(); // an extension from Win package
UnixRights rights = fsp.GetUnixPermissions(); // an extension from Unix package