NAME
    File::Stat::Bits - stat(2) bit mask constants

SYNOPSIS
     use File::stat;
     use File::Stat::Bits;

     my $st = stat($file) or die "Can't stat $file: $!";

     if ( S_ISCHR($st->mode) ) {
            my ($major, $minor) = dev_split( $st->rdev );

            print "$file is character device $major:$minor\n";
     }

     printf "Permissions are %04o\n", $st->mode & ALLPERMS;

    (Too many S_IF* constants to example)

DESCRIPTION
    Lots of Perl modules use the Unix file permissions and type bits
    directly in binary form with risk of non-portability for some
    exotic bits. Note that the POSIX module does not provides all
    needed constants and I can't wait when the POSIX module will be
    updated.

    This separate module provides file type/mode bit and more
    constants from sys/stat.ph and sys/sysmacros.ph without
    pollution caller's namespace by other unneeded symbols from
    these headers. Most of these constants exported by this module
    are Constant Functions (see the perlsub manpage).

    Since some of Perl builds does not include these converted
    headers, the build procedure will generate it for itself in the
    its own lib directory.

    This module also should concentrate all portability and
    compatibility issues.

CONSTANTS
  
    File type bit masks (for the st_mode field):

     S_IFMT         bitmask for the file type bitfields
     S_IFDIR        directory
     S_IFCHR        character device
     S_IFBLK        block device
     S_IFREG        regular file
     S_IFIFO        fifo (named pipe)
     S_IFLNK        symbolic link
     S_IFSOCK       socket

  
    File access permission bit masks (for the st_mode field):

     S_IRWXU        mask for file owner permissions
     S_IRUSR        owner has read permission
     S_IWUSR        owner has write permission
     S_IXUSR        owner has execute permission
     S_ISUID        set UID bit

     S_IRWXG        mask for group permissions
     S_IRGRP        group has read permission
     S_IWGRP        group has write permission
     S_IXGRP        group has execute permission
     S_ISGID        set GID bit

     S_IRWXO        mask for permissions for others
     S_IROTH        others have read permission
     S_IWOTH        others have write permisson
     S_IXOTH        others have execute permission
     S_ISVTX        sticky bit

    Common mode bit masks:

     ACCESSPERMS     0777
        ALLPERMS    07777
     DEFFILEMODE     0666

FUNCTIONS
  
    File type test macros (for the st_mode field):

     S_ISDIR ( mode )       directory?
     S_ISCHR ( mode )       character device?
     S_ISBLK ( mode )       block device?
     S_ISREG ( mode )       regular file?
     S_ISFIFO( mode )       fifo (named pipe)?
     S_ISLNK ( mode )       is it a symbolic link?
     S_ISSOCK( mode )       socket?

    All returns boolean value.

  
    $major = major( $st_rdev )

    Returns major device number of st_rdev

  
    $minor = minor( $st_rdev )

    Returns minor device number of st_rdev

  
    ($major, $minor) = dev_split( $st_rdev )

    Splits st_rdev to major and minor device numbers

SEE ALSO
    the stat(2) manpage

    the File::stat(3) manpage

AUTHOR
    Dmitry Fedorov <fedorov@inp.nsk.su>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2003, Dmitry Fedorov <fedorov@inp.nsk.su>

LICENCE
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
    the License, or (at your option) any later version.

DISCLAIMER
    The author disclaims any responsibility for any mangling of your
    system etc, that this script may cause.