Re: How do I get a files length

"Rikishi 42" <skunkworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-04-25, Aaron Gray <ang.usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



"Rikishi 42" <skunkworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-04-25, Aaron Gray <ang.usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How do I get the length of a file, hopefully without moving the
current
position.

You can stat(2) ("man 2 stat") or fstat(2) ("man 2 fstat") the file.
The
st_size of the returned stat structure will identify the "total size,
in
bytes" of the file.

Thanks but is there a separate function not requiring a struct ?

Yes. Stat. rtfm allready.

Yeah, how ?

How what? To get the size, or to rtfm ?

Shame the API's so crappy. So is man compared to HTML too. I develop on
Windows as it is quicker has nicer APIs and tools then I have a job porting
what I have done to Linux and Mac OS X.

Yeah its simple but windows has a single function to get the size of an open
file. *nix has some god damb struct that is as bad as X Windows'es data
structures, all that for one value. Then I have to wrap the darn thing to
make a portable API for my app, where if it had been a single function call
returniing the size I could have used a #define.

Waste of time, please read all the fuuking manuals and rewite the API's
while you are at it !

Aaron


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