Re: Special files

[Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 09 September 2013 22:10:51 Dustin Oprea wrote:
> sftp_attributes_struct.type can sometimes be SPECIAL or UNKNOWN.
> 
> I'm assuming that "SPECIAL" means that it could be, or -is-, a device. How
> can I get the device major/minor numbers?

SPECIAL means it is either a socket, block device, char device or fifo.


I think you can't get more information out of it. I don't think that the 
server provides these information.

See

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02#section-6.8s


for more details.



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