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sys/stat.h — data returned by the stat() functionSYNOPSIS top
#include <sys/stat.h>DESCRIPTION top
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the structure of the data
returned by the _fstat_(), _lstat_(), and _stat_() functions.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the **stat** structure, which
shall include at least the following members:
dev_t st_dev Device ID of device containing file.
ino_t st_ino File serial number.
mode_t st_mode Mode of file (see below).
nlink_t st_nlink Number of hard links to the file.
uid_t st_uid User ID of file.
gid_t st_gid Group ID of file.
dev_t st_rdev Device ID (if file is character or block special).
off_t st_size For regular files, the file size in bytes.
For symbolic links, the length in bytes of the
pathname contained in the symbolic link.
For a shared memory object, the length in bytes.
For a typed memory object, the length in bytes.
For other file types, the use of this field is
unspecified.
struct timespec st_atim Last data access timestamp.
struct timespec st_mtim Last data modification timestamp.
struct timespec st_ctim Last file status change timestamp.
blksize_t st_blksize A file system-specific preferred I/O block size
for this object. In some file system types, this
may vary from file to file.
blkcnt_t st_blocks Number of blocks allocated for this object.
The _stino_ and _stdev_ fields taken together uniquely identify the
file within the system.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the **blkcnt_t**, **blksize_t**,
**dev_t**, **ino_t**, **mode_t**, **nlink_t**, **uid_t**, **gid_t**, **off_t**, and **time_t**
types as described in _<sys/types.h>_.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the **timespec** structure as
described in _<time.h>_. Times shall be given in seconds since the
Epoch.
Which structure members have meaningful values depends on the type
of file. For further information, see the descriptions of _fstat_(),
_lstat_(), and _stat_() in the System Interfaces volume of
POSIX.1‐2017.
For compatibility with earlier versions of this standard, the
_statime_ macro shall be defined with the value _statim.tvsec_.
Similarly, _stctime_ and _stmtime_ shall be defined as macros with
the values _stctim.tvsec_ and _stmtim.tvsec_, respectively.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the following symbolic
constants for the file types encoded in type **mode_t**. The values
shall be suitable for use in **#if** preprocessing directives:
S_IFMT Type of file.
S_IFBLK Block special.
S_IFCHR Character special.
S_IFIFO FIFO special.
S_IFREG Regular.
S_IFDIR Directory.
S_IFLNK Symbolic link.
S_IFSOCK Socket.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the following symbolic
constants for the file mode bits encoded in type **mode_t**, with the
indicated numeric values. These macros shall expand to an
expression which has a type that allows them to be used, either
singly or OR'ed together, as the third argument to _open_() without
the need for a **mode_t** cast. The values shall be suitable for use
in **#if** preprocessing directives.┌─────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Name │ Numeric Value │ Description │ ├─────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ S_IRWXU │ 0700 │ Read, write, execute/search by owner. │ │ S_IRUSR │ 0400 │ Read permission, owner. │ │ S_IWUSR │ 0200 │ Write permission, owner. │ │ S_IXUSR │ 0100 │ Execute/search permission, owner. │ ├─────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ S_IRWXG │ 070 │ Read, write, execute/search by group. │ │ S_IRGRP │ 040 │ Read permission, group. │ │ S_IWGRP │ 020 │ Write permission, group. │ │ S_IXGRP │ 010 │ Execute/search permission, group. │ ├─────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ S_IRWXO │ 07 │ Read, write, execute/search by others. │ │ S_IROTH │ 04 │ Read permission, others. │ │ S_IWOTH │ 02 │ Write permission, others. │ │ S_IXOTH │ 01 │ Execute/search permission, others. │ ├─────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ S_ISUID │ 04000 │ Set-user-ID on execution. │ │ S_ISGID │ 02000 │ Set-group-ID on execution. │ │ S_ISVTX │ 01000 │ On directories, restricted deletion flag. │ └─────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The following macros shall be provided to test whether a file is
of the specified type. The value _m_ supplied to the macros is the
value of _stmode_ from a **stat** structure. The macro shall evaluate
to a non-zero value if the test is true; 0 if the test is false.
S_ISBLK(_m_) Test for a block special file.
S_ISCHR(_m_) Test for a character special file.
S_ISDIR(_m_) Test for a directory.
S_ISFIFO(_m_) Test for a pipe or FIFO special file.
S_ISREG(_m_) Test for a regular file.
S_ISLNK(_m_) Test for a symbolic link.
S_ISSOCK(_m_) Test for a socket.
The implementation may implement message queues, semaphores, or
shared memory objects as distinct file types. The following macros
shall be provided to test whether a file is of the specified type.
The value of the _buf_ argument supplied to the macros is a pointer
to a **stat** structure. The macro shall evaluate to a non-zero value
if the specified object is implemented as a distinct file type and
the specified file type is contained in the **stat** structure
referenced by _buf_. Otherwise, the macro shall evaluate to zero.
S_TYPEISMQ(_buf_)
Test for a message queue.
S_TYPEISSEM(_buf_)
Test for a semaphore.
S_TYPEISSHM(_buf_)
Test for a shared memory object.
The implementation may implement typed memory objects as distinct
file types, and the following macro shall test whether a file is
of the specified type. The value of the _buf_ argument supplied to
the macros is a pointer to a **stat** structure. The macro shall
evaluate to a non-zero value if the specified object is
implemented as a distinct file type and the specified file type is
contained in the **stat** structure referenced by _buf_. Otherwise, the
macro shall evaluate to zero.
S_TYPEISTMO(_buf_)
Test macro for a typed memory object.
The _<sys/stat.h>_ header shall define the following symbolic
constants as distinct integer values outside of the range
[0,999999999], for use with the _futimens_() and _utimensat_()
functions: UTIME_NOW UTIME_OMIT
The following shall be declared as functions and may also be
defined as macros. Function prototypes shall be provided.
int chmod(const char *, mode_t);
int fchmod(int, mode_t);
int fchmodat(int, const char *, mode_t, int);
int fstat(int, struct stat *);
int fstatat(int, const char *restrict, struct stat *restrict, int);
int futimens(int, const struct timespec [2]);
int lstat(const char *restrict, struct stat *restrict);
int mkdir(const char *, mode_t);
int mkdirat(int, const char *, mode_t);
int mkfifo(const char *, mode_t);
int mkfifoat(int, const char *, mode_t);
int mknod(const char *, mode_t, dev_t);
int mknodat(int, const char *, mode_t, dev_t);
int stat(const char *restrict, struct stat *restrict);
mode_t umask(mode_t);
int utimensat(int, const char *, const struct timespec [2], int);
Inclusion of the _<sys/stat.h>_ header may make visible all symbols
from the _<time.h>_ header.
_The following sections are informative._APPLICATION USAGE top
Use of the macros is recommended for determining the type of a
file.RATIONALE top
A conforming C-language application must include _<sys/stat.h>_ for
functions that have arguments or return values of type **mode_t**, so
that symbolic values for that type can be used. An alternative
would be to require that these constants are also defined by
including _<sys/types.h>_.
The S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits may be cleared on any write, not just
on _open_(), as some historical implementations do.
System calls that update the time entry fields in the **stat**
structure must be documented by the implementors. POSIX-conforming
systems should not update the time entry fields for functions
listed in the System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017 unless the
standard requires that they do, except in the case of documented
extensions to the standard.
Upon assignment, file timestamps are immediately converted to the
resolution of the file system by truncation (i.e., the recorded
time can be older than the actual time). For example, if the file
system resolution is 1 microsecond, then a conforming _stat_() must
always return an _stmtim.tvnsec_ that is a multiple of 1000. Some
older implementations returned higher-resolution timestamps while
the _inode_ information was cached, and then spontaneously truncated
the _tvnsec_ fields when they were stored to and retrieved from
disk, but this behavior does not conform.
Note that _stdev_ must be unique within a Local Area Network (LAN)
in a ``system'' made up of multiple computers' file systems
connected by a LAN.
Networked implementations of a POSIX-conforming system must
guarantee that all files visible within the file tree (including
parts of the tree that may be remotely mounted from other machines
on the network) on each individual processor are uniquely
identified by the combination of the _stino_ and _stdev_ fields.
The unit for the _stblocks_ member of the **stat** structure is not
defined within POSIX.1‐2008. In some implementations it is 512
bytes. It may differ on a file system basis. There is no
correlation between values of the _stblocks_ and _stblksize_, and
the _fbsize_ (from _<sys/statvfs.h>_) structure members.
Traditionally, some implementations defined the multiplier for
_stblocks_ in _<sys/param.h>_ as the symbol DEV_BSIZE.
Some earlier versions of this standard did not specify values for
the file mode bit macros. The expectation was that some
implementors might choose to use a different encoding for these
bits than the traditional one, and that new applications would use
symbolic file modes instead of numeric. This version of the
standard specifies the traditional encoding, in recognition that
nearly 20 years after the first publication of this standard
numeric file modes are still in widespread use by application
developers, and that all conforming implementations still use the
traditional encoding.FUTURE DIRECTIONS top
No new S_IFMT symbolic names for the file type values of **mode_t**
will be defined by POSIX.1‐2008; if new file types are required,
they will only be testable through _SISxx_() or _STYPEISxxx_()
macros instead.SEE ALSO top
[sys_statvfs.h(0p)](../man0/sys%5Fstatvfs.h.0p.html), [sys_types.h(0p)](../man0/sys%5Ftypes.h.0p.html), [time.h(0p)](../man0/time.h.0p.html)
The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2017, [chmod(3p)](../man3/chmod.3p.html),
[fchmod(3p)](../man3/fchmod.3p.html), [fstat(3p)](../man3/fstat.3p.html), [fstatat(3p)](../man3/fstatat.3p.html), [futimens(3p)](../man3/futimens.3p.html), [mkdir(3p)](../man3/mkdir.3p.html),
[mkfifo(3p)](../man3/mkfifo.3p.html), [mknod(3p)](../man3/mknod.3p.html), [umask(3p)](../man3/umask.3p.html)COPYRIGHT top
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Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
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