mode_t(3type)

✨ mode_t(3type) ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about mode_t — literally the moment the manual page header walked in, it said "mode_t(3type)" and we all knew it was main character energy 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

mode_t — file attributes 🗂️✨

📚 LIBRARY 📚

Standard C library (libc) 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <sys/types.h>

typedef /* ... */ mode_t;

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So this type is used for some file attributes (like, for example, file mode 👀). And it's an integer type. That's the whole vibe. No cap. It is an integer type — fr fr. 🍓

👑 STANDARDS 👑

POSIX.1-2024. She's certified. Periodt. ✨

🌸 HISTORY 🌸

POSIX.1-1988. She's been iconic since the 80s, lowkey timeless. 🕰️💜

🌈 NOTES 🌈

Not me telling you that these headers also provide this type?? The way that <fcntl.h>, <ndbm.h>, <spawn.h>, <sys/ipc.h>, <sys/mman.h>, and <sys/stat.h> all said "we have mode_t at home" 😭🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• chmod(2)
• mkdir(2)
• open(2)
• umask(2)
• stat(3type)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — no crumbs left behind 🫶 and just so you know, this was brought to you by Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, which is giving vintage-but-still-slaying fr. bye bye, go touch some file modes 💖✨👑