Use the access system call, but with 0 as the permission value to just see if it exists; see the man page for more info. On Sat, 15 May 2004, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I am writing a c program under gnu/Linux, in which I need to know if a > file of a particular name exists. The only way I can think of checking > for this is to attempt to open a file of a given name in read-only > mode. If it opens, the file exists, if the FILE stream is NULL, the > file doesn't exist. However, doing this for a good number of files > would be inefficient in my opinion. So, I was wondering if there is a > function which will simply tell me if a file of a given name exists or > not, sort of like calling ls, although I don't actually want to be > literally doing that either from within the program? Thanks. > > Greg > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFApboj7s9z/XlyUyARAqw3AKCe+9WAZTVAh0un22sMuEfZTQfcZwCdGcXp > OYBDtgiIu9LgzqGy7D2ts0s= > =D79j > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
