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https://github.com/artichoke/sysdir-rs

🍎 📁 Rust bindings to `sysdir` API on Apple platforms
https://github.com/artichoke/sysdir-rs

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🍎 📁 Rust bindings to `sysdir` API on Apple platforms

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# sysdir-rs

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Enumeration of the filesystem paths for the various standard system directories
where apps, resources, etc. get installed.

This crate exposes Rust bindings to the `sysdir(3)` library functions provided
by `libSystem.dylib` on macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

The `sysdir` API first appeared in OS X 10.12, iOS 10, watchOS 3 and tvOS 10
replacing the deprecated `NSSystemDirectories(3)` API.

## Usage

Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml
[dependencies]
sysdir = "1.2.2"
```

Then resolve well-known directories like this:

```rust
use core::ffi::{c_char, CStr};

use sysdir::*;

let mut path = [0; PATH_MAX as usize];

let dir = sysdir_search_path_directory_t::SYSDIR_DIRECTORY_USER;
let domain_mask = SYSDIR_DOMAIN_MASK_LOCAL;

unsafe {
let mut state = sysdir_start_search_path_enumeration(dir, domain_mask);
loop {
let path = path.as_mut_ptr().cast::();
state = sysdir_get_next_search_path_enumeration(state, path);
if state == 0 {
break;
}
let path = CStr::from_ptr(path);
let s = path.to_str().unwrap();
assert_eq!(s, "/Users");
}
}
```

You can test this crate works on your platform by running the example:

```shell
cargo run --example enumerate_system_dirs
```

## Implementation

sysdir-rs binds directly to `libSystem` with vendored bindings generated by
[`bindgen`][rust-bindgen]. This crate has no dependencies other than
`libSystem`.

[rust-bindgen]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-bindgen/

Note that this crate is completely empty on non-Apple platforms.

## `no_std`

sysdir-rs is `no_std` and only requires `core`.

## Minimum Supported Rust Version

This crate requires at least Rust 1.64.0. This version can be bumped in minor
releases.

## License

`sysdir-rs` is distributed under the terms of either the
[MIT License](LICENSE-MIT) or the
[Apache License (Version 2.0)](LICENSE-APACHE).