Class fs.StatBuf
An object holding various attributes of a file.
Returned by fs.stat, ui.Panel:get_current, and others.
Fields
| atime | Time of last access. |
| blksize | Preferred block size for filesystem I/O. |
| blocks | Number of 512B blocks allocated. |
| ctime | Time of last status change. |
| dev | ID of device containing file. |
| gid | Group ID of owner. |
| ino | inode number. |
| mode | Permission bits plus file-type bits. |
| mtime | Time of last modification. |
| nlink | Number of links. |
| perm | The permission bits of the file. |
| rdev | Device ID (if special file). |
| size | File size. |
| type | The type of the file. |
| uid | User ID of owner. |
Methods
| extract() | Converts a fs.StatBuf to a table. |
Fields
- atime
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Time of last access.
(On modern systems its meaning is somewhat altered for performance reasons.)
- blksize
- Preferred block size for filesystem I/O.
- blocks
- Number of 512B blocks allocated.
- ctime
- Time of last status change.
- dev
- ID of device containing file.
- gid
- Group ID of owner.
- ino
- inode number.
- mode
-
Permission bits plus file-type bits.
Since it’s not trivial to decipher this field in Lua, it’s broken down for you into two “easy” fields: perm and type.
The “easy” fields work in the other direction too: When you need to conjure up a StatBuf you can provide only the “easy” field(s) (if both an “easy” field and mode are given, the “easy” field takes precedence).
- mtime
- Time of last modification.
- nlink
- Number of links.
- perm
- The permission bits of the file.
- rdev
- Device ID (if special file).
- size
- File size.
- type
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The type of the file.
It’s one of:
- “regular”
- “directory”
- “link”
- “socket”
- “fifo”
- “character device”
- “block device”
- uid
- User ID of owner.
Methods
- extract()
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Converts a fs.StatBuf to a table.
This method extracts each and every field out of a fs.StatBuf, into a table. This is useful for debugging mainly, not for much else.
-- Show the stat() of the current file. ui.Panel.bind('C-f', function(pnl) local filename, statbuf = pnl:get_current() devel.view( statbuf:extract() ) end)