stat
<programming, operating system>
The Unix system call to get the properties of a file or directory.
stat is called like this: struct stat s;
if (stat("/path/to/file", &s)) { /* handle error */ }
This will fill the struct with the following data: id of
device containing file, inode number, permissions (mode),
number of hard links, user id of owner, group id of
owner, device id (if special file), total size in bytes,
block size for file system I/O, number of 512B blocks
allocated, time of last access, time of last modification,
time of last status change.
If stat is called on a symbolic link, it returns the
properties of the link's target. Variant lstat returns the
properties of the link itself.
Variant fstat takes a file descriptor instead of a path.
Unix manual page: stat(2).
Last updated: 2018-09-04
Nearby terms:
Start Of Header ♦ Start Of Text ♦ start tag ♦ stat ♦ state ♦ state diagram ♦ stateless
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