I think, as information are not needed, even access() is better than stat() and also uses less memory/cpu. - ben Le dimanche 09 septembre 2007 à 06:07 -0400, Robert P. J. Day a écrit : > if all you want to do is check for existence, then, execution time > notwithstanding, you should use the method which accomplishes that and > nothing more, so the obvious solution would be stat(). > > it would be illogical to call open() since a side-effect would be that > you then had an open file. in short, if you just want to test, then > just test. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
