Re: How to decide the file type in Cygwin?

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Yang,

Unix file systems don't store the the type of a file system entity in 
the directory entry used to access that entity, they stored in the 
so-called "inode." Once you have a name, use the stat(2) system call to 
get its inode information. From there you'll be able to determine what 
kind of an entity it is. If you have a file descriptor, then fstat(2) 
will do the same.

Randall Schulz


At 15:27 2003-03-24, Yang, Huaichen wrote:
> I need to list all files in a folder (including sub-folder,
> recursively), and I tried some sample codes in GNU C manual, as
> follows:
>
> ...
>
> The sample was working. Then I added some codes to check the
> ep->d_type (the type of the file). If it was a directory, the
> program would check the sub-folder recursively. However, I
> encountered a compiler error. The property d_type was not defined
> in the Cygwin header file dirent.h. It seems that we cannot
> distinguish the files from the directories. Is that true? Doesn't
> anybody have a good idea to do this?
>
> Thank you very much in adavance!


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