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class method
File.world_readable?
(::string | ::_ToPath | ::IO file_name) -> ::Integer?
File.world_readable?(file_name) → integer or nil
file.c
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static VALUE
rb_file_world_readable_p(VALUE obj, VALUE fname)
{
#ifdef S_IROTH
struct stat st;
if (rb_stat(fname, &st) < 0) return Qnil;
if ((st.st_mode & (S_IROTH)) == S_IROTH) {
return UINT2NUM(st.st_mode & (S_IRUGO|S_IWUGO|S_IXUGO));
}
#endif
return Qnil;
}
If file_name is readable by others, returns an integer representing the file permission bits of file_name. Returns nil otherwise. The meaning of the bits is platform dependent; on Unix systems, see stat(2).
file_name can be an IO object.
Example
File.world_readable?("/etc/passwd") #=> 420 m = File.world_readable?("/etc/passwd") sprintf("%o", m) #=> "644"