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From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: "Benjamin P. Grubin" <bgrubin@pobox.com>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: mergemaster(8) broken -- uses Perl
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On Sun, 19 May 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2002-05-18 23:11, Benjamin P. Grubin wrote:
> > Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > >
> > > [ The above should print in stdout just 01777 as a number. ]
> > > ...
> > > Does anyone know of any other (possibly more elegant way) of
> > > reading the numeric value of the permission bits for a file?

Hmmm, it's ugly but perhaps not as ugly:

 bash$ fstat -n /kernel < /kernel | grep -v PID
 pherman  fstat        942    0 116,196608    235     100555 4114305  r  /kernel

(the 100555).  The bad side is that you'd have to do a little
trickery to catch the correct process.  It'd probably be better
just to add an option to fstat to display /usr/ports/sysutils/stat
type info...

-Paul.


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