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Re: Possible problem with readdir() and/or lstat()



You're not checking the error result of lstat(). Your working directory is not the one your files are in, so your lstat of '.' and '..' are succeeding, because they will everywhere, and then the rest of your lstat()s are presumably failing and you're printing the same leftover stat info.

Always check result codes and clear your buffers between use. :-)

-pmb


At 1:43 PM -0700 3/30/07, Jeff Sparks wrote:
% cat test.c

#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
DIR* dir ;
struct dirent* entry ;
struct stat buf ;
assert(argc == 2) ;
dir = opendir(argv[1]) ;
assert(dir != 0) ;
while( (entry = readdir(dir)) != 0 )
{
lstat(entry->d_name, &buf) ;
printf("name: %s --- S_ISDIR: %d\n",
entry->d_name,
S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)) ;
}


    return 0 ;
}

% gcc test.c -o test
% file *
file1:   ASCII text
file2:   ASCII text
somedir: directory
test:    Mach-O executable i386
test.c:  ASCII C program text
% ./test .
name: . --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: .. --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: file1 --- S_ISDIR: 0
name: file2 --- S_ISDIR: 0
name: somedir --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: test --- S_ISDIR: 0
name: test.c --- S_ISDIR: 0
% file somedir/*
somedir/file3:    ASCII text
somedir/file4:    ASCII text
somedir/somedir2: directory
% ./test somedir
name: . --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: .. --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: file3 --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: file4 --- S_ISDIR: 1
name: somedir2 --- S_ISDIR: 1

Note that file3 and file4 are not directories.

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