Expand description
Given a path, query the file system to get information about a file, directory, etc.
This function will traverse symbolic links to query information about the destination file.
Platform-specific behavior
This function currently corresponds to the stat
function on Unix
and the GetFileInformationByHandle
function on Windows.
Note that, this may change in the future.
Errors
This function will return an error in the following situations, but is not limited to just these cases:
- The user lacks permissions to perform
metadata
call onpath
. path
does not exist.
Examples
use std::fs;
fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let attr = fs::metadata("/some/file/path.txt")?;
// inspect attr ...
Ok(())
}
Run