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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: how to find size of special file 
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>nor the less obvious
>
>    int fd ;
>    struct stat sb ;
>    fd = open(filename, ...) ;
>    size = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) ;
>
>work on special files, even if they are disk partitions.  (They both
>work on regular files....)
>
>Satoshi

Hmm... wc filename will work...did the open work?

What errno is it returning?