[cs631apue] Archive state?

[Tejas Nadkarni]

Thanks. I usually do the work on a local Ubuntu VM because it's faster than
Linux Lab. Rarely have issues because the OS is same but I guess different
packages and configs.
On Oct 7, 2013 4:48 PM, "Jan Schaumann" <jschauma at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Tejas Nadkarni <tnadkarn at stevens.edu> wrote:
> > It's weird in the even on the manpage for strmode it doesn't reference A
> or
> > a being returned for filetype.
>
> Correct.  A platform that does not support these file types may not
> mention them in its manual page.
>
> > Also I don't appear to have the bsd/string.h on my system so will need to
> > fix that. That's why since I already have a function written to parse
> > st_mode I was hoping there was a value I could check for A or a.
>
> Well, if the platform supported this type, it'd probably provide macros
> such as _S_ARCH1 an _S_ARCH2.  Your code would have to ifndef the
> relevant blocks around this to be portable, though.  So in the end,
> using strmode(3) is the best solution.
>
> This is also an example of why it's useful to develop your program on
> the same platform on which it is intended to run --
> linux-lab.cs.stevens.edu, in this case.  The differences across unix
> variants can lead to frustrations otherwise.
>
> -Jan
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