File types

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au
Fri Jan 11 16:14:59 AEST 1991


In article <127561 at linus.mitre.org> dean at snkoil.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) writes:
>Anyone know any easy way for a program to check if the argument it was
>given as an input file is a directory??  I've been using stat, but
>whatever more uses seems faster.
>

Use stat(2).


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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