Retrieves a file or folder attributes.

A Long value. If successful, 0 is returned, otherwise error as specified here.

long Sftp_GetAttributes(void *Sftp, char *RemotePath, int FollowSymLink);

The GetAttributes function syntax has these parts:

The GetAttributes function will retrieve known information about a file or directory on the remote server. Once these attributes are returned by the server, the Attributes event is fired containing parsed information.

This method will provide you with information about:

Size as long
Uid as long
Gid as long
Permissions as long
AccessTime as Date
ModificationTime as Date

The value for Permissions is defined by the POSIX standard.

This means that you should represent them in the octal base system (base 8) to make parsing them easier
Permissions AND 777 (octal) will give you read/write/execute permissions for owner, group and others. Specifically, 1 means execute permission, 2 means write permission, 4 means read permission. For example, if file Permission AND 777 (octal) is 754, this is represented on the server as -rwxr-xr-- which means that the owner can read/write/execute, the group can read/execute and others can only read.

To determine if an attribute belongs to a directory, test for Permissions AND 40000 (octal). To determine if an attribute belongs to a symbolic link, test for Permissions AND 120000 (octal).