From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 13:10:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F138537B47E for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F734BCAA; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA29777; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:09:45 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0GLCIT06274; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO -- backup onto CDRs? References: <018824024051012FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 16 Jan 2002 13:12:18 -0800 In-Reply-To: <018824024051012FE7@mail7.nc.rr.com> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Anyway, these are the only types of files that perl knows aobut; looks pretty > complete to me: > > -f File is a plain file. > -d File is a directory. > -l File is a symbolic link. > -p File is a named pipe (FIFO), or Filehandle is a pipe. > -S File is a socket. > -b File is a block special file. > -c File is a character special file. Looks like /usr/include/sys/stat.h has the definitive list and it adds something called a "whiteout". Never heard of it; maybe it's not supported by other code, or just used by the system software. (The "find" man page agrees with perl.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message