Stat Structure
The struct stat structure, also defined in
- st_dev
- Identifier of device containing file
- st_ino
- Inode number
- st_mode
- Protection mode. See also Unix permissions.
- st_nlink
- Reference count of hard links
- st_uid
- User identifier of owner
- st_gid
- Group identifier of owner
- st_rdev
- Device identifier (if special file)
- st_size
- Total file size, in bytes
- st_atime
- Time of last access
- st_mtime
- Time of last modification
- st_ctime
- Time of last status change
- st_blksize
- Block size for filesystem I/O
- st_blocks
- Number of blocks allocated
The st_mode field is a bit field. It combines the file access modes and also indicates any special file type. There are many macros to work with the different mode flags and file types.
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