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:
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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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