/* Return a string describing the type of a file. Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 2001-2002, 2004-2006, 2009-2013 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" #include #define _(text) gettext (text) char const * file_type (struct stat const *st) { /* See POSIX 1003.1-2001 XCU Table 4-8 lines 17093-17107 for some of these formats. To keep diagnostics grammatical in English, the returned string must start with a consonant. */ if (S_ISREG (st->st_mode)) return st->st_size == 0 ? _("regular empty file") : _("regular file"); if (S_ISDIR (st->st_mode)) return _("directory"); if (S_ISBLK (st->st_mode)) return _("block special file"); if (S_ISCHR (st->st_mode)) return _("character special file"); if (S_ISFIFO (st->st_mode)) return _("fifo"); if (S_ISLNK (st->st_mode)) return _("symbolic link"); if (S_ISSOCK (st->st_mode)) return _("socket"); if (S_TYPEISMQ (st)) return _("message queue"); if (S_TYPEISSEM (st)) return _("semaphore"); if (S_TYPEISSHM (st)) return _("shared memory object"); if (S_TYPEISTMO (st)) return _("typed memory object"); return _("weird file"); }