metadata_stat

Table of Contents "POSIX" stat Metadata Metadata supported Implementation status Notes

"POSIX" stat Metadata

"POSIX"-ish stat metadata.

Metadata supported

• Type of file (file, hardlink, link)
  • Broken links
• File mode (UNIX-like permissions)
• UID
  • Textual user representation of UID on archiving system
• GID
  • Textual group representation of GID on archiving system
• atime, ctime, and mtime (in ISO 8601 format)

Implementation status

Implemented since >= 1.0

Notes

• On systems that support the st_flags member of the stat struct xar will archive the chflags(2) flags.