The O_* constants are documented in `man 2 open`. The S_* constants
are documented in `man 2 stat`.
Note that they're also platform-dependent. For example, O_SYMLINK
only exists on BSD systems.
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Adam Crabtree <atcrabt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> (Let me know if this isn't appropriate for nodejs-dev.)
>
> I'm attempting to porting fs to the browser in browserify via the FileSystem
> API, and it looks like the fastest route is to shim the appropriate
> process.binding('fs') and process.binding('constants'), which includes:
>
> // from process.binding('fs')
> [ 'Stats',
> 'close',
> 'open',
> 'read',
> 'fdatasync',
> 'fsync',
> 'rename',
> 'truncate',
> 'rmdir',
> 'mkdir',
> 'sendfile',
> 'readdir',
> 'stat',
> 'lstat',
> 'fstat',
> 'link',
> 'symlink',
> 'readlink',
> 'unlink',
> 'write',
> 'chmod',
> 'fchmod',
> 'chown',
> 'fchown',
> 'utimes',
> 'futimes',
> 'StatWatcher' ]
>
> // from process.binding('constants')
> {
> O_RDONLY: 0,
> O_WRONLY: 1,
> O_RDWR: 2,
> S_IFMT: 61440,
> S_IFREG: 32768,
> S_IFDIR: 16384,
> S_IFCHR: 8192,
> S_IFBLK: 24576,
> S_IFIFO: 4096,
> S_IFLNK: 40960,
> S_IFSOCK: 49152,
> O_CREAT: 512,
> O_EXCL: 2048,
> O_NOCTTY: 131072,
> O_TRUNC: 1024,
> O_APPEND: 8,
> O_DIRECTORY: 1048576,
> O_NOFOLLOW: 256,
> O_SYNC: 128,
> O_SYMLINK: 2097152
> }
>
> The fs bindings seem pretty straightforward, not sure if they'll all
> translate to the FileSystem API, but mostly if anyone would be be willing to
> give information on the constants I'd be very thankful.
>
> Also, are these documented outside of the source?
>
> Cheers,
> Adam Crabtree
>
> --
> Better a little with righteousness
> than much gain with injustice.
> Proverbs 16:8
