get drive names on mac

keszegh

i've been using this code on windows to get drive list, but it turns out that it returns false on mac. as i do not have a mac, it is hard to experiment, can somebody help me with a correct code?:

local disks = {} for i = 65, 90 do local letter = string.char(i) local att = lfs.attributes(letter..":/.") if att then local data={} data.name=letter..":" table.insert(disks, data) end end rootnames=(#disks > 0 and disks) return rootnames

hgy29

There are no drive letters on Mac, file system is unified as it is with other Unix like systems. Rott directory is just /

keszegh

so if i want a list of 'drives' then i should return a list of whatever is in "/". what would that return usually?

hgy29

Well, not quite, I think the best would be to display mounted drives (not sure how to get that through lfs) and also to provide a few typical locations such as Document folder or user home foldet

keszegh

hgy29 said:

Well, not quite, I think the best would be to display mounted drives (not sure how to get that through lfs) and also to provide a few typical locations such as Document folder or user home foldet

that sounds logical, but without having a mac in hand it is hopeless for me though.

hgy29

Thinking of it, I remember having coded something about a getDrives() call in our lfs implementation

keszegh

would be nice. i did not find such a thing in the documentation.

hgy29

Found it: the call is lfs.drives(), but it doesn't to fix anything about Mac situation, it just returns "/" here

keszegh

hgy29 said:

Found it: the call is lfs.drives(), but it doesn't to fix anything about Mac situation, it just returns "/" here

: )

keszegh

finally i can do tests on mac.
what would be the way to access the current user folder through lfs?
i tried

for entry in lfs.dir("~")

but it did not work.

keszegh

or how to get the current user name on mac? (from that i could generate the user folder too)