EMILUA(3em)

🎀 NAME

Emilua — the Lua execution engine, bestie. This is the 3em manual page and we’re gonna make it make sense. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

local fs = require "filesystem"
fs.status(p: fs.path) -> { type: string, mode: integer|"unknown" }
fs.symlink_status(p: fs.path) -> { type: string, mode: integer|"unknown" }

💖 DESCRIPTION

Okay so the actual reference is over at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/status — go look if you want the deep lore. 🦋

The returned object has a member named type, and the acceptable strings for it are literally:

• "not_found"
• "regular"
• "directory"
• "symlink"
• "block"
• "character"
• "fifo"
• "socket"
• "junction" (Windows-only)
• "unknown"

Then there’s the member named mode in the returned object: it refers to the POSIX file access mode (permissions). That’s the vibe. ✨

Sign-off cuteness: this page is serving Emilua 0.12.1-nixpkgs1, dated 1980-01-01 — periodt. 🫶🌸