Posix stat metadata about f.el

[rejeep]

Give it a shot, perhaps possible using https://github.com/rejeep/f.el/blob/master/f.el#L386?

[priyadarshan]

Nice, why did I not think of that! Elisp has extended attributes introspection too (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Extended-Attributes.html). Thank you. I shall give it a try.

[priyadarshan]

Thank you for the pointer, it works as intended.

It would still be quite nice to be able to access such information through f.el API, i.e. perhaps by adding some syntactic sugar to allow easier extraction of the Posix metadata.

Right now one needs to do a bit of cavorting in order to do that.

[rejeep]

Why don't you use the raw functions for a while and get back if you figure out an API that make sense. Otherwise I think it will be hard to come up with a good API.

[priyadarshan]

Almost exactly a year later, just a quick addition, for future reference: Emacs 26.0.50 is offering more file details. From NEWS file:

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** Several accessors for the value returned by 'file-attributes'
have been added.  They are: 'file-attribute-type',
'file-attribute-link-number', 'file-attribute-user-id',
'file-attribute-group-id', 'file-attribute-access-time',
'file-attribute-modification-time',
'file-attribute-status-change-time', 'file-attribute-size',
'file-attribute-modes', 'file-attribute-inode-number',
'file-attribute-device-number' and 'file-attribute-collect'.