dirstate and file mode
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Sun Apr 8 15:56:45 UTC 2012
On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 17:46 +0200, Wujek Srujek wrote:
> Hi. I am playing around with python and the mercurial files to learn a
> little bit about how things work in mercurial. One thing that I notice is
> that I get modes of a files in .hg/dirstate in the notation '0100664' -
> what does the initial 010 stand for (I am assuming the final 0664 are just
> the usual unix permissions, with the first octet being
> setid/setgid/sticky)? Is this some numeric definition of a type (normal,
> link, pipe, ...)? I can't find an answer in google easily, maybe this is
> something related to mercurial?
>From the stat(2) manpage:
The following flags are defined for the st_mode field:
S_IFMT 0170000 bit mask for the file type bit fields
S_IFSOCK 0140000 socket
S_IFLNK 0120000 symbolic link
S_IFREG 0100000 regular file
S_IFBLK 0060000 block device
S_IFDIR 0040000 directory
S_IFCHR 0020000 character device
S_IFIFO 0010000 FIFO
S_ISUID 0004000 set UID bit
...
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