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| -rw-r--r-- | src/directory.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/directory.c b/src/directory.c index 2464271f4..9c8e3ba98 100644 --- a/src/directory.c +++ b/src/directory.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> #include <assert.h> +#include <libgen.h> #define DIRECTORY_DIR "directory: " #define DIRECTORY_MTIME "mtime: " @@ -989,7 +990,36 @@ void sortDirectory(Directory * directory) { int checkDirectoryDB() { char * dbFile = getDbFile(); + /** + * Check if the file exists + */ + if(access(dbFile, F_OK)) { + char *dirPath = NULL; + char *dbPath = strdup(dbFile); + + /** + * If the file doesn't exits, we can't check if we can write it, + * so we are going to try to get the directory path, and see if we can write a file in that + */ + dirPath = dirname(dbPath); + + /** + * Check if we can write to the directory + */ + if(access(dirPath, R_OK|W_OK)) + { + ERROR("Can't create db file in \"%s\": %s", dirPath, strerror(errno)); + free(dbPath); + return -1; + } + free(dbPath); + return 0; + + } + /** + * File exists, now check if we can write it + */ if(access(dbFile, R_OK|W_OK)) { ERROR("db file \"%s\" cannot be opened for reading/writing: %s", dbFile, strerror(errno)); |