Willam,
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 04:55 , William H. Magill wrote:
> I'm not a programmer, so I may simply be mis-interpreting things.
>
> I was hunting for a way to display the "flags" found in OS X in a
> rational
> manner. (ie not having to "get info" for every bloody file.)
> So I found your contribution to CPAN.
>
> [My goal was to write an "ls -l" equilivant which would display the
> flags
> information as well. If you know of such a critter, that would be a
> great
> time saver.]
>
> Under Mac OS X, the /usr/include/sys/stat.h struc looks like this below.
> Which appears to be different than the field sequence in the man page
> for
> BSD::stat for fields 13/14/15. Am I simply interpreting things
> incorrectly?
>
> Is Darwin/NeXT different from the BSD in this?
Though each BSD differ from one another on st_flags, important fields
remain compatible. I do use BSD::stat on MacOS X (in fact my main
client machine is PowerBook G4 Ti). So you can still rely on the value
of stat()->flags but you may find some of the predefined constants may
not work. I borrowed from FreeBSD which appears to have more flags
switches than any other.
Maybe it is not a good idea to predefine FLAGS constants there after
all. I will check to see if Fcntl module can be used for that purpose.
But for the time being, please give me more time than usual; I am doing
Encode, the largest module (in size) in the upcoming perl 5.8.
Dan the Man with Too Many Modules to Manage
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