/* Return a string describing the type of a file. Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 2001-2002, 2004-2006, 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ #include #include "file-type.h" #define N_(msgid) (msgid) char const * c_file_type (struct stat const *st) { /* For some of these formats, see POSIX 1003.1-2017 "file" command, STDOUT section, Table: File Utility Output Strings . To keep diagnostics grammatical in English, the returned string must start with a consonant. */ /* Do these three first, as they're the most common. */ if (S_ISREG (st->st_mode)) return st->st_size == 0 ? N_("regular empty file") : N_("regular file"); if (S_ISDIR (st->st_mode)) return N_("directory"); if (S_ISLNK (st->st_mode)) return N_("symbolic link"); /* Do the S_TYPEIS* macros next, as they may be implemented in terms of S_ISNAM, and we want the more-specialized interpretation. */ if (S_TYPEISMQ (st)) return N_("message queue"); if (S_TYPEISSEM (st)) return N_("semaphore"); if (S_TYPEISSHM (st)) return N_("shared memory object"); if (S_TYPEISTMO (st)) return N_("typed memory object"); /* The remaining are in alphabetical order. */ if (S_ISBLK (st->st_mode)) return N_("block special file"); if (S_ISCHR (st->st_mode)) return N_("character special file"); if (S_ISCTG (st->st_mode)) return N_("contiguous data"); if (S_ISFIFO (st->st_mode)) return N_("fifo"); if (S_ISDOOR (st->st_mode)) return N_("door"); if (S_ISMPB (st->st_mode)) return N_("multiplexed block special file"); if (S_ISMPC (st->st_mode)) return N_("multiplexed character special file"); if (S_ISMPX (st->st_mode)) return N_("multiplexed file"); if (S_ISNAM (st->st_mode)) return N_("named file"); if (S_ISNWK (st->st_mode)) return N_("network special file"); if (S_ISOFD (st->st_mode)) return N_("migrated file with data"); if (S_ISOFL (st->st_mode)) return N_("migrated file without data"); if (S_ISPORT (st->st_mode)) return N_("port"); if (S_ISSOCK (st->st_mode)) return N_("socket"); if (S_ISWHT (st->st_mode)) return N_("whiteout"); return N_("weird file"); }