Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtxinu!ed
From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: given inode and fs, determine if dir or not?
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Date: 23 Nov 88 18:52:42 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
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>If I have an inode (and fs root) on hand, how do I tell whether that
>inode is a directory or not?  The definition of struct inode suggests
>that it's possible, but I can't find a man entry that says how.

If inode.i_mode == IFDIR, then inode is a directory.

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