From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 23:50:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9439106566C for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3998FC21 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B42B0E80F58; Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:50:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:50:13 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20111228235010.GA28763@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 25 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Subject: how to tell that a file exists and is not 0-len? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:50:14 -0000 guys, access(filenamewithpath, F_OK) returned true as Zero if i have access to it. what do i use in C to tell me that a file is not empty? fstat? or is there something more common? thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.