[p4] Best way to determine if user has read access to file...

[Evgeny]

Did you try using fstat to check on that file with the restricted user?

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:49 PM, <Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com> wrote:

> Cheers, but i need to do this programatically.
>
>
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>        From: Stephen Vance [mailto:steve at vance.com]
>        Sent: 14 May 2008 13:27
>        To: Echlin, Jamie: IT (LDN)
>        Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
>        Subject: Re: [p4] Best way to determine if user has read access
> to file...
>
>
>        Use the relatively new P4V admin interface.
>
>        Steve
>
>        Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com wrote:
>
>                Afternoon,
>
>                What's the best way to determine if a user has read
> access to a file,
>                short of logging in as them and doing fstat or whatever.
>
>                Let's say my protections are set up like this:
>
>                        write user echlinj * //depot/Jamgraph/...
>                        write user echlinj *
> -//depot/Jamgraph/REL1.0/...
>
>                So I have no read/write access to stuff under REL1.0. I
> was hoping this
>                would work:
>
>
>
>                        p4 -u p4admin protects -m -u echlinj
>
>
>                //depot/Jamgraph/REL1.0/src/gparticle.cpp
>                write
>
>                However I don't have write access to that file.
>
>                Without -m I get:
>
>                write user echlinj * //depot/Jamgraph/...
>                write user echlinj * -//depot/Jamgraph/REL1.0/...
>
>                I don't really want to parse that to work out which line
> best matches
>                the file in question. There must be a better way.
>
>                Cheers,
>
>                Jamie Echlin
>                Head of Development Tools Engineering
>                Barclays Capital, 10 The South Colonnade, Canary Wharf,
> London, E14 4PU.
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