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- package File::stat;
- use 5.006;
-
- use strict;
- use warnings;
-
- our(@EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK, %EXPORT_TAGS);
-
- our $VERSION = '1.00';
-
- BEGIN {
- use Exporter ();
- @EXPORT = qw(stat lstat);
- @EXPORT_OK = qw( $st_dev $st_ino $st_mode
- $st_nlink $st_uid $st_gid
- $st_rdev $st_size
- $st_atime $st_mtime $st_ctime
- $st_blksize $st_blocks
- );
- %EXPORT_TAGS = ( FIELDS => [ @EXPORT_OK, @EXPORT ] );
- }
- use vars @EXPORT_OK;
-
- # Class::Struct forbids use of @ISA
- sub import { goto &Exporter::import }
-
- use Class::Struct qw(struct);
- struct 'File::stat' => [
- map { $_ => '$' } qw{
- dev ino mode nlink uid gid rdev size
- atime mtime ctime blksize blocks
- }
- ];
-
- sub populate (@) {
- return unless @_;
- my $stob = new();
- @$stob = (
- $st_dev, $st_ino, $st_mode, $st_nlink, $st_uid, $st_gid, $st_rdev,
- $st_size, $st_atime, $st_mtime, $st_ctime, $st_blksize, $st_blocks )
- = @_;
- return $stob;
- }
-
- sub lstat ($) { populate(CORE::lstat(shift)) }
-
- sub stat ($) {
- my $arg = shift;
- my $st = populate(CORE::stat $arg);
- return $st if $st;
- my $fh;
- {
- local $!;
- no strict 'refs';
- require Symbol;
- $fh = \*{ Symbol::qualify( $arg, caller() )};
- return unless defined fileno $fh;
- }
- return populate(CORE::stat $fh);
- }
-
- 1;
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use File::stat;
- $st = stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
- if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && $st->nlink > 1) ) {
- print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
- }
-
- use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);
- stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
- if ( ($st_mode & 0111) && $st_nlink > 1) ) {
- print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
- }
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This module's default exports override the core stat()
- and lstat() functions, replacing them with versions that return
- "File::stat" objects. This object has methods that
- return the similarly named structure field name from the
- stat(2) function; namely,
- dev,
- ino,
- mode,
- nlink,
- uid,
- gid,
- rdev,
- size,
- atime,
- mtime,
- ctime,
- blksize,
- and
- blocks.
-
- You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace
- as regular variables using the :FIELDS import tag. (Note that this still
- overrides your stat() and lstat() functions.) Access these fields as
- variables named with a preceding C<st_> in front their method names.
- Thus, C<$stat_obj-E<gt>dev()> corresponds to $st_dev if you import
- the fields.
-
- To access this functionality without the core overrides,
- pass the C<use> an empty import list, and then access
- function functions with their full qualified names.
- On the other hand, the built-ins are still available
- via the C<CORE::> pseudo-package.
-
- =head1 BUGS
-
- As of Perl 5.8.0 after using this module you cannot use the implicit
- C<$_> or the special filehandle C<_> with stat() or lstat(), trying
- to do so leads into strange errors. The workaround is for C<$_> to
- be explicit
-
- my $stat_obj = stat $_;
-
- and for C<_> to explicitly populate the object using the unexported
- and undocumented populate() function with CORE::stat():
-
- my $stat_obj = File::stat::populate(CORE::stat(_));
-
- =head1 NOTE
-
- While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct
- module to build a struct-like class, you shouldn't rely upon this.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Tom Christiansen
-