[Dev-luatex] file permissions

[Hans Hagen]

On 7-2-2011 1:41, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> No, it's not a bug.  The name "attributes" is misleading, "stat" would
> be better.  It *has* a defined meaning, it just returns what's stored
> in the stat structure of a particular file:
>
>    struct stat {
>          dev_t     st_dev;     /* ID of device containing file */
>          ino_t     st_ino;     /* inode number */
>          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 ID (if special file) */
>          off_t     st_size;    /* total size, in bytes */
>          blksize_t st_blksize; /* blocksize for file system I/O */
>          blkcnt_t  st_blocks;  /* number of 512B blocks allocated */
>          time_t    st_atime;   /* time of last access */
>          time_t    st_mtime;   /* time of last modification */
>          time_t    st_ctime;   /* time of last status change */
>      };
>
> This is exactly the information you see in directory listings.
>
> lfs.attributes supports the stat() system call directly, except that
> st_blksize and st_blocks are not defined on Windows and that st_mode
> is split up into "permissions" and "mode".

So where does the 'permissions' info in lfs.attributes come from then? I 
assume that that should reflect access.

Hans


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