Deniz Dogan <kristnjov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question regarding the st_mode field of the "stat" struct in
> sys/stat.h.

I guess you're not aware that this isn't really a question about
C but looks more like one about POSIX, so comp.unix.programmer
would be more appropriate to ask in.

> I'd like to know how to use the S_IRWXU, S_IRWXG and
> S_IRWXO flags to mask the mode_t value into human readable form such
> as 755, 644, etc. Currently I do something similar to this:

> usr_t = (mod & S_IRWXU);

> usr_r = (mod & S_IRUSR);
> usr_w = (mod & S_IWUSR);
> usr_x = (mod & S_IXUSR);

> However, this does not produce the required result. Any is
> appreciated.

What about something like

mode = ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IRUSR ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 8 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IWUSR ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 7 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IXUSR ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 6 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IRGRP ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 5 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IWGRP ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 4 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IXGRP ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 3 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IROTH ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 2 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IWOTH ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 1 )
| ( ( ( stat.st_mode & S_IXOTH ) ? 1 : 0 ) << 0 );

and then printing the result as an octal number?

Regards, Jens
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