Re: [U2] UniVerse Basic Status command <5> Permission's

[Glenn Herbert]

Easy.  Check out your /usr/include/sys/stat.h file (usually in that 
location).  The information you return and convert to octal contains 
information other than permissions.   Within the stat.h file, are defined a 
number of S_IFxxx macros, one of which is S_IFREG.  The value of this is 
0100000 (octal #), so when you see 100775 what you should actually read 
that as is: "This is a regular file whose permissions are 775".  If for 
instance your value was 120775, then you would have "A link whose 
permissions are 775".  The value that universe returns in status<5> is the 
raw value so you have to pick off the parts you want.

If you simply want the permissions (lowest 3 bits) from this value, use
PERMS = BITAND(status<5>, 511)
which will return you simply 775 (in your instance).  Using the #define 
values in stat.h you could create BITAND code to determine if you are 
looking at a link, a directory, a file, a character block device, etc.

Hope this helps!!
Glenn
At 12:30 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote:
When doing a status on a file in a program, attribute 5 gives the
permission's in decimal format so 33277 in decimal returns 100775 in octal.
Why doesn't it just return the 775 value and or what is the significance of
the 100?
thanks
paul

Paul Boroditsch
Computer Sciences Corporation
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