file length

Ralf Corsepius corsepiu at faw.uni-ulm.de
Sat May 25 03:18:36 UTC 2002


Am Sam, 2002-05-25 um 00.23 schrieb Angelo Fraietta:
> I ened up using:
> 
>     struct stat statbuf;
>     fstat(fileno(_fp), &statbuf);
>     return statbuf.st_size;

Seems correct to me.
> 
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> >Am Fre, 2002-05-24 um 01.55 schrieb Angelo Fraietta:
> >
> >>How does one determine the file length of a file?
> >>
> >
> >C.f. man 2 stat
> >
> >struct stat -> off_t is probably what you are looking for.
Dooh. WTH did I write there? 

Of cause I meant "struct stat -> st_size".

Ralf





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