Messages in this thread | | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: file types | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:23:06 -0400 (EDT) |
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Jamie Lokier writes: > Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> OK, we can have: >> >> d Appears in a directory when BSD filename types are used. >> i Used in an on-disk inode or directory structure. >> s Can be returned in struct stat. > > Are d and i different? Is whiteout the only difference?
S_IFSHAD is ACL data, so I doubt it can appear in a directory. S_IFWHT of course only appears in directories. S_IFCMP appears in VxFS inodes, but might be S_IFREG to users.
Some of the stream-like file types might not exist on disk at all.
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