Support for File Security in .NET Core

Question

We were porting a .NET 4.0 class Library to .NET Core 1.1 and struck with an issue of very limit support for file Security and permissions in .NET Core CLR.

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Answer 1

These APIs haven't been included in .NET Standard due to low use and being Windows specific.

See discussion here regarding its exclusion from .NET Standard: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/issues/15

As a workaround there is a NuGet package which provides this functionality: https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.IO.FileSystem.AccessControl/

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