Re: General C question - file attributes [offtopic]

[Jan Kratochvil <short ucw cz>]

> On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 09:25:55AM -0400, John C Atkeson wrote:
> >   I'm reading directories with opendir, readdir and closedir.   Um... how
> I was looking for these... glad I read your question.
> > do I detect file attributes, specifically how to distinguish files from
> > sub-directories? 
> In the man page for readdir I found this:
>               struct dirent {
>                       long            d_ino;  /* inode number */
>                       off_t           d_off;  /* offset to the next dirent */
>                       unsigned short  d_reclen;/* length of this record */
>                       unsigned char   d_type;         /* type of file */
>                       char            d_name[256];    /* filename */
>               };
> That is what is returned from readdir, this is just a guess but I would think
> that d_type is what you are looking for.

  Beware - I have very bad experience with "d_type" field. Although it is
present, it's value is often (always?) bogus. Check stat(2) call and "st_mode"
field of the resulting "struct stat" to get reliable result across unices.


> Travis Loyd <lelandg@usa.net>
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