What is wrong with this code ?

[Clarence Dold]

in article <660067 at hpcljws.HP.COM>, jws at hpcljws.HP.COM (John Stafford) says:

  Clarence Dold writes...
 > For that matter, we don't need to mask type against S_IFMT.

- The problem is that the various S_...  items have, in some cases, more
- than one bit on.  Guess what happens if one of the S_...  items has a
- bit on that is also in one of the other items?  For example on my
- system...
- 
- #define	S_IFMT	0170000		/* type of file */
- #define		S_IFLNK	0120000	/* symbolic link */
- #define		S_IFSOCK 0140000/* socket */

Notice when I said 'we' I used lower case, not the big We :-(

My SysV doesn't have any cases of needing S_IFMT, but then it doesn't
have symbolic links either.  I got e-mail chastising me, but no explanation.

- choice, it doesn't hurt that much.  Thank you for your support.
Thanks, and you're welcome to my support.
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