From: Benoit Rouits <brouits@free.fr>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing if a file or directory exist
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:16:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189333013.9615.2.camel@chimay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709090605220.31293@localhost.localdomain>
I think, as information are not needed, even access() is better than
stat() and also uses less memory/cpu.
- ben
Le dimanche 09 septembre 2007 à 06:07 -0400, Robert P. J. Day a écrit :
> if all you want to do is check for existence, then, execution time
> notwithstanding, you should use the method which accomplishes that and
> nothing more, so the obvious solution would be stat().
>
> it would be illogical to call open() since a side-effect would be that
> you then had an open file. in short, if you just want to test, then
> just test.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-09 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-09 9:26 Testing if a file or directory exist Holger Kiehl
2007-09-09 10:07 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-09 10:16 ` Benoit Rouits [this message]
2007-09-09 15:04 ` LDB
2007-09-10 15:53 ` Holger Kiehl
2007-09-10 18:01 ` Glynn Clements
2007-09-09 13:15 ` Glynn Clements
2007-09-10 15:39 ` Holger Kiehl
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