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Subject: Re: Need help w/directories under C
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Date: 17 Dec 90 06:41:17 GMT
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In article <0bOkkiu00WB6QLT0M4@andrew.cmu.edu> rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes:
>I am writing a utility program in C, and part of it requires grabbing
>the directory stuff for a particular file (i.e. the size of the file,
>date of creation, etc.)
>
>I am presently using the opendir() and readdir() routines to read in the
>filenames, and then i do an open() on an individual file to get a path
>to it, then a _gs_gfd() to get its file descriptor. This works fine,
>unless the particular file happens to itself be a directory.

When the open(file, 0) fails, do an open(file, S_IFDIR) .  Then do the
_gs_gfd() as normal.

Alternatibly, if you run by the superuser (or your program is setuid
superuser) you could open the raw disk and read the file descriptor
directly.  This would be less overhead, but very os9 specific.


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