Hiya -
Playing with BSD File routines & it seems that *every* file I retrieve
info on via readdir that isn't a directory or a pipe/fifo has "DT_LNK"
set.
I would have thought that this should only be set for symbolic links
(cannot be sure, since sys/dirent.h doesn't elaborate on the enums
listed, and I can find nothing on this via google.
Should I maybe be using something other than readdir to grab the
contents of a directory ? At this point I'm looking for file name, and
the type of stuff that (I thought) was included in dirent's d_type
(whether something is a directory, pipe, link or 'regular' file).
FWIW, here's a snipped of code that illustrates what I'm doing:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/dir.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
DIR *dirp;
struct dirent *dp;
dirp = opendir(argv[1]);
while ((dp = readdir(dirp)) != NULL) {
printf("NAME IS : %s", dp->d_name);
if (dp->d_type & DT_UNKNOWN) printf("\t\tUNKNOWN");
if (dp->d_type & DT_DIR) printf("\t\tDIRECTORY");
if (dp->d_type & DT_LNK) printf("\t\tLINK");
if (dp->d_type & DT_FIFO) printf("\t\tPIPE");
printf("\n");
}
(void)closedir(dirp);
return 0;
} // fin
Thanks for any advice you can throw at me - Dave
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