Filesystems generally have a tree-ish structure which means
paths are more likely to share a prefix than a suffix. Absolute paths
are especially prone to share long prefixes.
Possible errors when accessing file metadata are platform specific
In particular the `is_dir`, `is_file` and `exists` functions suggests that querying a file requires querying the directory. On Windows this is not normally true.
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In particular the `is_dir`, `is_file` and `exists` functions says that querying a file requires querying the directory. On Windows this is not normally true.
Added `try_exists()` method to `std::path::Path`
This method is similar to the existing `exists()` method, except it
doesn't silently ignore the errors, leading to less error-prone code.
This change intentionally does NOT touch the documentation of `exists()`
nor recommend people to use this method while it's unstable.
Such changes are reserved for stabilization to prevent confusing people.
Apart from that it avoids conflicts with #80979.
`@joshtriplett` requested this PR in [internals discussion](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/the-api-of-path-exists-encourages-broken-code/13817/25?u=kixunil)
add diagnostic items for OsString/PathBuf/Owned as well as to_vec on slice
This is adding diagnostic items to be used by rust-lang/rust-clippy#6730, but my understanding is the clippy-side change does need to be done over there since I am adding a new clippy feature.
Add diagnostic items to the following types:
OsString (os_string_type)
PathBuf (path_buf_type)
Owned (to_owned_trait)
As well as the to_vec method on slice/[T]
Add diagnostic items to the following types:
OsString (os_string_type)
PathBuf (path_buf_type)
Owned (to_owned_trait)
As well as the to_vec method on slice/[T]
This method is similar to the existing `exists()` method, except it
doesn't silently ignore the errors, leading to less error-prone code.
This change intentionally does NOT touch the documentation of `exists()`
nor recommend people to use this method while it's unstable.
Such changes are reserved for stabilization to prevent confusing people.
Apart from that it avoids conflicts with #80979.
WASI does not match `cfg(unix)`, but its paths are Unix-like (`/some/path`) and don't have Windows-like prefixes.
Without this change, `is_absolute` for paths like `/some/path` was returning `false`on a WASI target, which is obviously not true and undesirable.
deny(unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn) in libstd/path.rs
The libstd/path.rs part of #73904 . Wraps the two calls to an unsafe fn Initializer::nop() in an unsafe block.
Move to intra-doc links in library/std/src/path.rs
Helps with #75080.
@rustbot modify labels: T-doc, A-intra-doc-links, T-rustdoc
Known issue: The following links are broken (they are inside trait impls, undocumented in this file, inheriting from the original doc):
- [`Hasher`]
- [`Self`] (referencing `../primitive.slice.html`)
- [`Ordering`]
