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This page details a proposal for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563742 Bug 563742 - Efficient ctypes API for file handling]. | This page details a proposal for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563742 Bug 563742 - Efficient ctypes API for file handling]. | ||
'''Note''' This is an early draft. The final API is documented [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_OS.File on MDN]. | |||
The general idea of this API is to provide a low-level, cross-platform, fast access to file management functions. For this reason, it does not implement some primitives that are very different between platforms, e.g. chmod, mmap, epoll. | The general idea of this API is to provide a low-level, cross-platform, fast access to file management functions. For this reason, it does not implement some primitives that are very different between platforms, e.g. chmod, mmap, epoll. | ||
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get name(): { ... | get name(): { ... | ||
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/** | /** | ||
* All the information that could be gathered about the file without opening it. | * All the information that could be gathered about the file without opening it. | ||