Is there any mechanism to get and set the file/directory permissions?
For example, I want to show the permisssions of a file in a shell way:
-rwxr-xr--
Is it possible to do this using Java?
I know that there are some methods in the File class to know if the file canExecute, canRead and canWrite, but AFAIK this info is for the current user only. I need to know the whole octal number, for example 755, so I need to get it from the user, from group and from others.
I know that Java7 brings Posix operations, but how could do this using a smaller JRE?
I would like not to use a command like ls, or chmod.
解决方案
If you can use external libraries, there are several:
If an entire library seems a hassle, creating a JNI wrapper that calls the lstat C function and returns the access mode takes you about 10 minutes. Here's a tutorial that creates such a wrapper for the isatty and ttyname functions.