readdir() and S_ISDIR(stat.st_mode) question (OT ?)

[electric sheep]

I'm not sure if this is POSIX or not ... and indeed if POSIX
is OT here or not, but if the subject made sense to you ....

I have a very simple program here, but it seems to be returning
a "true" value to the query S_ISDIR() even when the directory
entry is not a directory.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
DIR *dir;
struct dirent *entry;
struct stat eStat;
char *root;
int i;

root = argv[1];

while((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
lstat(entry->d_name, &eStat);
if(S_ISDIR(eStat.st_mode))
printf("found directory %s\n", entry->d_name);
else
printf("not a dir\n");
}
return 0;
}


sample output:
found directory .
found directory ..
found directory NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO-html.tar.gz
found directory ncurses_programs
found directory ncurses.html

 

[Martien Verbruggen]

I'm not sure if this is POSIX or not ... and indeed if POSIX
is OT here or not, but if the subject made sense to you ....

Yes, it is a POSIX question, and it is offtopic here.

comp.unix.programmer is the place where they discuss POSIX.

Martien

 

[Villy Kruse]

Yes, it is a POSIX question, and it is offtopic here.

comp.unix.programmer is the place where they discuss POSIX.

Regardless of that, it is still a good idea to check possible errors
also from non-ANSI-C functions.


Villy