From 3d0c59ae97d6b1eab084bc1ece6ee7fd563a3830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Boichat <nicolas@boichat.ch>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:19:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] stat: Print what kind of "weird" mode it is, if it's "weird"

Maybe useful to (partially) understand what is going on in #7583.
---
 src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs              | 4 +---
 src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs b/src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs
index 706e8157d..640d0af41 100644
--- a/src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs
+++ b/src/uu/stat/src/stat.rs
@@ -910,9 +910,7 @@ impl Stater {
                     // raw mode in hex
                     'f' => OutputType::UnsignedHex(meta.mode() as u64),
                     // file type
-                    'F' => OutputType::Str(
-                        pretty_filetype(meta.mode() as mode_t, meta.len()).to_owned(),
-                    ),
+                    'F' => OutputType::Str(pretty_filetype(meta.mode() as mode_t, meta.len())),
                     // group ID of owner
                     'g' => OutputType::Unsigned(meta.gid() as u64),
                     // group name of owner
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
index 9f38c1815..c32a31320 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/fsext.rs
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ where
 }
 
 #[cfg(unix)]
-pub fn pretty_filetype<'a>(mode: mode_t, size: u64) -> &'a str {
+pub fn pretty_filetype(mode: mode_t, size: u64) -> String {
     match mode & S_IFMT {
         S_IFREG => {
             if size == 0 {
@@ -896,9 +896,9 @@ pub fn pretty_filetype<'a>(mode: mode_t, size: u64) -> &'a str {
         S_IFIFO => "fifo",
         S_IFSOCK => "socket",
         // TODO: Other file types
-        // See coreutils/gnulib/lib/file-type.c // spell-checker:disable-line
-        _ => "weird file",
+        _ => return format!("weird file ({:07o})", mode & S_IFMT),
     }
+    .to_owned()
 }
 
 pub fn pretty_fstype<'a>(fstype: i64) -> Cow<'a, str> {
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!("character special file", pretty_filetype(S_IFCHR, 0));
         assert_eq!("regular file", pretty_filetype(S_IFREG, 1));
         assert_eq!("regular empty file", pretty_filetype(S_IFREG, 0));
-        assert_eq!("weird file", pretty_filetype(0, 0));
+        assert_eq!("weird file (0000000)", pretty_filetype(0, 0));
     }
 
     #[test]