File types

[Chet Ramey]

In article <127561 at linus.mitre.org> dean at snkoil.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) writes:

>Anyone know any easy way for a program to check if the argument it was
>given as an input file is a directory??  I've been using stat, but
>whatever more uses seems faster.

Stat is what more uses.  You could try opening the file for writing and
checking to see if the open fails with errno == EISDIR, but I don't think
that's any better, and it has to be less portable.

Chet
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