Programming

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the directory pointer i pass in from my function call
along with pathname

>>>>First of all, stat() does not return 1 on failure - it returns -1.

sorry typo it is -1 in my source....
should of used copy paste

>>>>Second, what's ``pathname'' defined as?

pathname is a const char* pathname
as in

function( DIR* dirPtr, const char* pathname)

>>In the loop of your example code, you should be calling
>>stat(dir->d_name, &fInfo);
>>to check every file.

i am currently outputting the file names and it does hit every file
(lots of error code checking in this)

however i tried the dir->d_name instead of pathname
and it again loops thru however every loop thru displays
CANT STAT along with 12/31/69 as the last time it was modified

output

Error on file text.txt, cannot stat.
text.txt 12/31/69

the only typo was the negative 1
i just did a dif and all else is good

so i assume what you said in number two is what i am not doing....

to understand what you are saying
is right now as my code stands i am trying to stat just the name
of the file which is differant then the actual file

does this i am stating just a string thus the reason it fails instead the actual file?

so

char buf[FILENAME_MAX + 1];
snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, "%s/%s", pathname, dir->d_name);
if (stat(buf, &....

produces the actual file path and not just the name
which then i can apply to the stat function and it will actually stat on the file and not just some imaginery thing as i am currently doing.


i appreciate the assitance

thank you that made sense
something finally clicked

it is frustrating because both referances i was using did not mention or display anything about having to worry about the path, so in that end i was chasing wrong values around

chances are thru my travels i had the correct setup for the time
but since i was not using the correct path and it was
as you said /home/foo/file
instead of /home/foo/bar/file

it never worked

i appreciate the help

eric