François Revol wrote on Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:29:32 +0100 CET: > Or what about using the bits as value instead of bitmask ? would give > more room, S_IFMT does it (see LNK, and SOCK... wait, where are my > sockets gone ? And for other future file system object types, like things which are a bit like a MacOS alias and a bit like a hard link, but also work for directories. - Alex