POSIX Metadata Operations

These functions are supported by fakefs and have exactly the same meanings as in POSIX or Unix:

• Inode information functions: stat/chown/chmod families, utime

• Name-to-inode mapping manipulation: link, unlink, rename

• Directory structure: opendir, readdir, closedir, seekdir, telldir, the chdir family

Note that not all of the semantics of access control are necessarily implemented in fakefs the same way they are in the host OS. A user's real uid/gid identity is irrelevant to a filesystem that exists entirely in user-space and is fully accessible to that user in the host OS. In many cases, this can be considered a feature.