From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PATH field questions
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:04:49 -0500
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On Wednesday 16 January 2008 09:32:57 Matthew Booth wrote:
> The meaning of the first 3 characters of the mode field.

The mode field is in octal. This is the sticky * setuid bits. Look at fstat 
man page for st_mode.

> The meaning of rdev.

root device for the file in question.

-Steve