os.fstat() - os

             
The method fstat() returns information about a file associated with the fd. Here is the structure returned by fstat method:


st_dev: ID of device containing file 
st_ino: inode number 
st_mode: protection 
st_nlink: number of hard links 
st_uid: user ID of owner 
st_gid: group ID of owner 
st_rdev: device ID (if special file) 
st_size: total size, in bytes 
st_blksize: blocksize for filesystem I/O 
st_blocks: number of blocks allocated 
st_atime: time of last access 
st_mtime: time of last modification 
st_ctime: time of last status change 

Syntax

os.fstat(fd)

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys

# Open a file
fd = os.open( "foo.txt", os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT )

# Now get  the touple
info = os.fstat(fd)

print "File Info :", info

# Now get uid of the file
print "UID of the file :%d" % info.st_uid

# Now get gid of the file
print "GID of the file :%d" % info.st_gid

# Close opened file
os.close( fd)

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result:


File Info : (33261, 3753776L, 103L, 1, 0, 0, 
            102L, 1238783197, 1238786767, 1238786767)
UID of the file :0
GID of the file :0

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