Obtaining File System Information
The UNIX kernel maintains considerable detail about every file system object. This is true whether the object is a file, a directory, a special device node, or a named pipe. Whatever the file system object is, several properties are tracked and maintained for it.
The stat(2) and fstat(2) functions return information about file system objects in a structure named stat. The synopsis for the stat structure is as follows:
struct stat { dev_t st_dev; /* device */ ino_t st_ino; /* inode */ mode_t st_mode; /* protection */ nlink_t st_nlink; /* number of hard links */ uid_t st_uid; /* user ID of owner */ gid_t st_gid; /* group ID of owner */ dev_t st_rdev; /* device type (if inode dev) */ #ifndef _POSIX_SOURCE struct ...Get Advanced UNIX Programming now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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