On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:43:04AM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Yannick Cadin wrote: > > >- first in the stat command. Only with the -x option. If you execute stat > >-x on /tmp or /usr/bin/passwd parameters for example, the numeric > >representation of mode is wrong. The "special" bits are always 0. No > >suid-bit, no sticky bit! > > Although this does seem wrong to me, the code does it deliberately. I'm > not sure why, it may be to be compatible with Linux (as the -x option is > documented in the man page as giving "Linux format" output).
I don't know the history, but must guess from what you've said that it was attempting to be compatible with an old linux stat, beause the one that I have installed in /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/stat produces quite different output: duncan [209]$ /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/stat /usr/bin/passwd File: `/usr/bin/passwd' Size: 7832 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 7ah/122d Inode: 33728080 Links: 2 Access: (4555/-r-sr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ wheel) Access: 2008-10-25 12:38:00.000000000 +1100 Modify: 2008-10-25 12:38:00.000000000 +1100 Change: 2008-10-25 12:38:00.000000000 +1100 duncan [210]$ stat -x /usr/bin/passwd File: "/usr/bin/passwd" Size: 7832 FileType: Regular File Mode: (0555/-r-sr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ wheel) Device: 0,122 Inode: 33728080 Links: 2 Access: Sat Oct 25 12:38:00 2008 Modify: Sat Oct 25 12:38:00 2008 Change: Sat Oct 25 12:38:00 2008 Since this clearly isn't close enough for the purposes of simple shell or sed scripts, I can understand why this bug has gone unfixed for so long... Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
