Agreed, by definition access() does the following: access() checks whether the process would be allowed to read, write or test for existence of the file (or other file system object) whose name is pathname. LDB Benoit Rouits wrote: > 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 > > - 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
