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Hey guys,


I hate asking this but unfortunetly, Google does not know how to interpret "|" and probably assumes its an OR command or something :P . The line goes as follows (source found http://pysnippet.blogspot.com/2009/11/fuse-filesystem-in-userspace-part-1.html here):

st.st_mode = stat.S_IFDIR | 0755

I know it's doing something about the mode being 0755 but I have never seen | be used like that before.

Can someone explain whats going on?


Thanks!

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The single vertical bar is for the bitwise OR operator. What the code is doing is taking the S_IFDIR flag (which indicates if a given file handle is actually for a directory), and overlaying the bitfield for the desired file permissions, which results in the overall file mode value. See here and here for more details.

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The single vertical bar is for the bitwise OR operator. What the code is doing is taking the S_IFDIR flag (which indicates if a given file handle is actually for a directory), and overlaying the bitfield for the desired file permissions, which results in the overall file mode value. See here and here for more details.

That helped me out, thanks.

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