stat of i-node

[Chris Torek]

In article <172 at bmers58.UUCP> davem at bmers58.UUCP (Dave Mielke) writes:
>How can I get stat information for an i-node? I would like to avoid the
>need to have a directory scanned for a name if I already know the file
>number.

Then open the disk and read the on-disk copy of the inode.

fstat() is a very cheap operation.  stat() is a bit more expensive, but
(with name cacheing) not all that bad.
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