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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stat of i-node
Message-ID: <19362@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 07:16:40 GMT
References: <172@bmers58.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <172@bmers58.UUCP> davem@bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke) writes:
>How can I get stat information for an i-node? I would like to avoid the
>need to have a directory scanned for a name if I already know the file
>number.

Then open the disk and read the on-disk copy of the inode.

fstat() is a very cheap operation.  stat() is a bit more expensive, but
(with name cacheing) not all that bad.
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