NAME Filesys::Virtual::Plain - A Plain virtual filesystem SYNOPSIS use Filesys::Virtual::Plain; my $fs = Filesys::Virtual::Plain->new(); $fs->login('xantus', 'supersekret'); print foreach ($fs->list('/')); DESCRIPTION This module is used by other modules to provide a pluggable filesystem. CONSTRUCTOR new() You can pass the initial cwd, root_path, and home_path as a hash. METHODS login($username, $password, $become) Logs in a user. Returns 0 on failure. If $username is 'anonymous' then it will try to login as 'ftp' with no password. If $become is defined then it will try to change ownership of the process to the uid/gid of the logged in user. BEWARE of the consequences of using $become. login() also sets the uid, gid, home, gids, home_path, and chdir to the users'. cwd Gets or sets the current directory, assumes / if blank. This is used in conjunction with the root_path for file operations. No actual change directory takes place. root_path($path) Get or set the root path. All file paths are off this and cwd For example: $self->root_path('/home/ftp'); $self->cwd('/test'); $self->size('testfile.txt'); The size command would get the size for file /home/ftp/test/testfile.txt not /test/testfile.txt chmod($mode,$file) chmod's a file. modtime($file) Gets the modification time of a file in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format. size($file) Gets the size of a file in bytes. delete($file) Deletes a file, returns 1 or 0 on success or failure. chdir($dir) Changes the cwd to a new path from root_path. Returns undef on failure or the new path on success. mkdir($dir, $mode) Creats a directory with $mode (defaults to 0755) and chown()'s the directory with the uid and gid. The return value is from mkdir(). rmdir($dir) Deletes a directory or file if -d test fails. Returns 1 on success or 0 on failure. list($dir) Returns an array of the files in a directory. list_details($dir) Returns an array of the files in ls format. stat($file) Does a normal stat() on a file or directory test($test,$file) Perform a perl type test on a file and returns the results. For example to perform a -d on a directory. $self->test('d','/testdir'); See filetests in perlfunc (commandline: perldoc perlfunc) open_read($file,[params]) Opens a file with IO::File. Params are passed to open() of IO::File. It returns the file handle on success or undef on failure. This could be technically be used for any sort of open operation. See IO::File's open method. close_read($fh) Performs a $fh->close() open_write($fh, $append) Performs an $fh->open(">$file") or $fh->open(">>$file") if $append is defined. Returns the filehandle on success or undef on failure. close_write($fh) Performs a $fh->close() seek($fh, $pos, $wence) Performs a $fh->seek($pos, $wence). See IO::Seekable. utime($atime, $mtime, @files) Performs a utime() on the file(s). It changes the access time and mod time of those files. AUTHOR David Davis, , http://teknikill.net/ LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO perl(1), Filesys::Virtual, Filesys::Virtual::SSH, Filesys::Virtual::DAAP, POE::Component::Server::FTP, Net::DAV::Server, HTTP::Daemon, http://perladvent.org/2004/20th/