Talk:Unix file types

What's a mode string?

This page mentioned "mode string" for several times. What's a mode string? Yegle (talk) 18:11, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

At the time of this writing, mode string are explained at Unix_file_types#Mode string. And at File system permissions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.246.139.246 (talk) 23:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

What does this first sentence mean?

What does this first sentence mean? Being the well known entity files are, files are also called "regular files" to ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:6042:6A00:6C2F:37B:43D5:28F4 (talk) 21:23, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Modes (Unix) into Unix file types

Both parts of "mode" as defined in the stat member is covered by this article. The representation is redundant with File system permissions#Traditional Unix permissions Artoria2e5 🌉 12:49, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

@Artoria2e5: You proposed the merge at 12:49, 29 June 2020, and then two minutes later (at 12:51) you redirected the page to Unix file types#Representations. That hardly allowed any time for discussion.

You missed the earlier discussion at Talk:Modes (Unix)#Should this redirect to chmod? wbm1058 (talk) 01:14, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

wbm1058, apologies for the fast merge. I happened to decide on writing something about representation with sources, and it then occured to me that it already subsumes the mode thing. Mode being unreferenced, I thought nobody is gonna miss it. --Artoria2e5 🌉 04:40, 26 December 2020 (UTC)