Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What is wrong with this code ?
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.011220.28366@druid.uucp>
Date: 11 Dec 89 01:12:20 GMT
References: <1156@nsscb.UUCP>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Lines: 40

In article <1156@nsscb.UUCP> nrg@nsscb.UUCP (G.Narotham Reddy) writes:
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <sys/stat.h>
>
>main(argc,argv)
>int argc;
>char *argv[];
>{
>struct stat nfile;
>stat(argv[1], &nfile);
>if (nfile.st_mode & S_IFMT == S_IFREG) 
>printf("%s regular file\n", argv[1]);    
>else if (nfile.st_mode & S_IFMT == S_IEXEC) 
>printf("%s executable\n", argv[1]);    
>else if (nfile.st_mode & S_IFMT == S_IWRITE) 
>printf("%s writable\n", argv[1]);    
>else if (nfile.st_mode & S_IFMT == S_IREAD) 
>printf("%s readable\n", argv[1]);    
>else if (nfile.st_mode & S_IFMT == S_IFDIR)
>printf("%s dir\n", argv[1]);    
>}
>

You forgot to put a smiley in this message (I hope).  In case this is
a serious question here is my $0.02

  1: There is no indentation.
  2: There isn't enough white space.
  3: It's inefficient.
  4: It's rather useless.

P.S: :-)

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