Am 10.05.2013 14:16, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > But what if some systems return more than the file type and less than a > full stat result? The general problem is POSIX's terrible inertia. > I feel that a stat result with some None fields would be an acceptable > compromise here.
POSIX only defines the d_ino and d_name members of struct dirent. Linux, BSD and probably some other platforms also happen to provide d_type. The other members of struct dirent (d_reclen, d_namlen) aren't useful in Python space by themselves. d_type and st_mode aren't compatible in any way. As you know st_mode also contains POSIX permission information. The file type is encoded with a different set of bits, too. Future file types aren't mapped to S_IF* constants for st_mode. For d_ino you also need the device number from the directory because the inode is only unique within a device. I don't really see how to map strut dirent to struct stat on POSIX. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
