Re: how to tell that a file exists and is not 0-len?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 28/12/2011 23:50, Gary Kline wrote:

> access(filenamewithpath, F_OK) returned true  as Zero if i have
> access to it.  what do i use in C to tell me that a file is not  
> empty?  fstat?  or is there something more common?

stat(2) which uses the file path -- unless you have an open file
descriptor on the file, in which case use fstat(2).

        Matthew

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