Re: stat(); distinguishing between regular files and links -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: stat(); distinguishing between regular files and links
From: Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:26:40 -0400
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Adam Glauser wrote:

I don't see any way to tell if a stream file is a regular file, a link, or some sort of device file. Can anyone recommend a good method to distinguish between the stream file types?

For the archives: Scott Klement's ebook discusses this in chapter 7.10 'Example of Reading a directory recursively'. See http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs_ebook/recurse.html

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