Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:57:22 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to tell that a file exists and is not 0-len? Message-ID: <4EFBACE2.3000206@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111228235010.GA28763@thought.org> References: <20111228235010.GA28763@thought.org>
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On 28/12/2011 23:50, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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 =20
> empty? fstat? or is there something more common?
stat(2) which uses the file path -- unless you have an open file
descriptor on the file, in which case use fstat(2).
Matthew
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