1 /* Return a string describing the type of a file. 2 3 Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 2001-2002, 2004-2006, 2009-2010 Free Software 4 Foundation, Inc. 5 6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or 9 (at your option) any later version. 10 11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 14 GNU General Public License for more details. 15 16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ 18 19 /* Written by Paul Eggert. */ 20 21 #include <config.h> 22 23 #include "file-type.h" 24 25 #include <gettext.h> 26 #define _(text) gettext (text) 27 28 char const * 29 file_type (struct stat const *st) 30 { 31 /* See POSIX 1003.1-2001 XCU Table 4-8 lines 17093-17107 for some of 32 these formats. 33 34 To keep diagnostics grammatical in English, the returned string 35 must start with a consonant. */ 36 37 if (S_ISREG (st->st_mode)) 38 return st->st_size == 0 ? _("regular empty file") : _("regular file"); 39 40 if (S_ISDIR (st->st_mode)) 41 return _("directory"); 42 43 if (S_ISBLK (st->st_mode)) 44 return _("block special file"); 45 46 if (S_ISCHR (st->st_mode)) 47 return _("character special file"); 48 49 if (S_ISFIFO (st->st_mode)) 50 return _("fifo"); 51 52 if (S_ISLNK (st->st_mode)) 53 return _("symbolic link"); 54 55 if (S_ISSOCK (st->st_mode)) 56 return _("socket"); 57 58 if (S_TYPEISMQ (st)) 59 return _("message queue"); 60 61 if (S_TYPEISSEM (st)) 62 return _("semaphore"); 63 64 if (S_TYPEISSHM (st)) 65 return _("shared memory object"); 66 67 if (S_TYPEISTMO (st)) 68 return _("typed memory object"); 69 70 return _("weird file"); 71 } 72