fs_ftype_to_dtype(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 fs_ftype_to_dtype(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🫶

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, you've got an on-disk file type just sitting there being all FT_*, and you need a dirent type DT_* instead. That's literally this function. It's the translator of the filesystem world and it ate, no cap. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

fs_ftype_to_dtype — the glow-up where an fs on-disk file type becomes a dirent type. 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unsigned char fs_ftype_to_dtype (unsigned int filetype );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • filetype — the on-disk file type you want converted. That's the one. That's the input. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So what does it do, you ask? Obsessed that you asked. 🥰 This function converts the on-disk file type value (the FT_* girlies) into the directory entry type (the DT_* girlies). It's giving translator, it's giving middle management, it's giving "I speak both languages fluently". 🌈

Basically FT_* in, DT_* out. Simple. Iconic. Periodt. 💅

🧚 CONTEXT 🧚

Any context. Literally any. Call it from anywhere, she doesn't care, she's flexible like that. 💜

🔥 RETURN 🔥

Here's the whole menu of what you might get back, and every single one is on the list, no skipping, we don't do that here 🫶:

  • DT_UNKNOWN — unknown type, the mystery era 🙈
  • DT_FIFO — FIFO
  • DT_CHR — character device
  • DT_DIR — directory 📁
  • DT_BLK — block device
  • DT_REG — regular file
  • DT_LNK — symbolic link 🔗
  • DT_SOCK — local-domain socket 🧦

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Go be nosy, bestie, the whole friend group is right here:

💀 Real talk for a sec: keep the FT_* → DT_* mapping straight in your head, because that's the entire personality of this function and there is no plan B. iykyk.

That's the whole page, bestie! 🌈 Brought to you straight outta ./fs 💖 and dated October 2026 🎀 — go forth and convert those file types, you absolute main character. 👑✨

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