Crate tokio_fs

Asynchronous file and standard stream adaptation.

This module contains utility methods and adapter types for input/output to files or standard streams (Stdin, Stdout, Stderr), and filesystem manipulation, for use within (and only within) a Tokio runtime.

Tasks run by worker threads should not block, as this could delay servicing reactor events. Portable filesystem operations are blocking, however. This module offers adapters which use a blocking annotation to inform the runtime that a blocking operation is required. When necessary, this allows the runtime to convert the current thread from a worker to a backup thread, where blocking is acceptable.

Usage

Where possible, users should prefer the provided asynchronous-specific traits such as AsyncRead, or methods returning a Future or Poll type. Adaptions also extend to traits like std::io::Read where methods return std::io::Result. Be warned that these adapted methods may return std::io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock if a worker thread can not be converted to a backup thread immediately. See tokio-executor for more details of the threading model and blocking.

Modules

os	OS-specific functionality.

Structs

DirEntry	Entries returned by the ReadDir stream.
File	A reference to an open file on the filesystem.
OpenOptions	Options and flags which can be used to configure how a file is opened.
ReadDir	Stream of the entries in a directory.
Stderr	A handle to the standard error stream of a process.
Stdin	A handle to the standard input stream of a process.
Stdout	A handle to the standard output stream of a process.

Functions

create_dir	Creates a new, empty directory at the provided path
create_dir_all	Recursively create a directory and all of its parent components if they are missing.
hard_link	Creates a new hard link on the filesystem.
metadata	Queries the file system metadata for a path.
read	Creates a future which will open a file for reading and read the entire contents into a buffer and return said buffer.
read_dir	Returns a stream over the entries within a directory.
read_link	Reads a symbolic link, returning the file that the link points to.
remove_dir	Removes an existing, empty directory.
remove_dir_all	Removes a directory at this path, after removing all its contents. Use carefully!
remove_file	Removes a file from the filesystem.
rename	Rename a file or directory to a new name, replacing the original file if to already exists.
set_permissions	Changes the permissions found on a file or a directory.
stderr	Constructs a new handle to the standard error of the current process.
stdin	Constructs a new handle to the standard input of the current process.
stdout	Constructs a new handle to the standard output of the current process.
symlink_metadata	Queries the file system metadata for a path.
write	Creates a future that will open a file for writing and write the entire contents of contents to it.