Re: [RFC] redoxfs.pk: Pickle for RedoxFS file system

[Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 06:02:01PM +0100, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> 
> >     method isdir = int:
> >       {
> >         return (mode & RedoxFS_MODE_DIR) == RedoxFS_MODE_DIR;
> >       }
> >     method isfile = int:
> >       {
> >         return (mode & RedoxFS_MODE_FILE) == RedoxFS_MODE_FILE;
> >       }
> >     method issymlink = int:
> >       {
> >         return (mode & RedoxFS_MODE_SYMLINK) == RedoxFS_MODE_SYMLINK;
> >       }
> 
> Aren't the DIR and FILE flags exclusive?  In that case, the isdir and
> isfile methods can be simplified like:
> 
> method isdir = int:
> {
>   return mode & RedoxFS_MODE_DIR;
> }


Yes.


> 
> I assume you can have symlinks to both files and directories in that
> filesystem...

Symlink is a file that contains the path to the destination. Kind of a
simple text file.