Re: file size query

[ixx]

On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 05:11:55PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote:
> hi again
> 
> is there a function similar to pascal's filesize() in ANSI C?  something
> that will take a pointer to a stream as parameter, and return the file
> size in bytes.

you can use stat.  it takes the name of the file.... fstat will take a file
descriptor...  so if you get the file descriptor of the stream you are in
buisness.  the member of the structure you want is st_size.  eg.
        struct stat st;
        .
        .
        /* stat the file... */
        .
        .
        printf("file size is %d\n", st.st_size);