Programming

I'm writing a file manager program using FC3 and C, and I'm having a problem displaying the stat info of subdirectories.

Code:

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

int main()
{
   char *dirname = "mydirectory";
   struct dirent **namelist;
   struct stat buf;
   int n = scandir(dirname, &namelist, 0, alphasort);
   int i;


   for ( i = 0; i < n; i++ )
   { 
      char *file_name = namelist[i]->d_name;
      if ( stat( file_name, &buf ) )
         perror( "stat" );
   }
   
   return 0;
}

I keep getting a "No such file or directory" error, which doesn't make sense because namelist contains the names of the files in mydirectory. The code only works if dirname is "." or if file_name in the stat function is replaced with the actual names of the files in a subdirectory. Can anyone help me with this?

You need to chdir() to the directory.

Or supply stat() with a fully qualifed path - /home//bertsura/mydirs/dir1/subdir1