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From: "Rupert Wood" <me@rupey.net>
To: "'danny'" <danny@3rdplanetsoftware.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: directories for newbies
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:57:00 -0000
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Danny wrote:

> I'm look for a function to get me the attributes of a file. Such as is
> the file a directory or not. Any ideas?

Stat(); test for the S_IFDIR bit set in st_mode. See the manual pages
for stat and the mknod function (in section 2 - not the mknod utility in
section 1).

Rup.