FpStat

Retrieve file information about a file descriptor.

Declaration

Source position: bunxh.inc line 81

  function FpStat(path: pChar; var buf: Stat) : cint;
  function FpStat(const path: RawByteString; var buf: Stat) : cint;
  function FpStat(path: ShortString; var buf: Stat) : cint;

Description

FpFStat gets information about the file specified in Path, and stores it in Info, which is of type stat . The function returns zero if the call was successful, a nonzero return value indicates failure.

Errors

Extended error information can be retrieved using fpGetErrno .

sys_enoent

Path does not exist.

See also

Name	Description
FpLStat	Return information about symbolic link. Do not follow the link
FpStat	Retrieve file information about a file descriptor.

Example

program example28;
{ Program to demonstrate the FStat function. }
uses BaseUnix;
var f : text;
    i : byte;
    info : stat;
begin
  { Make a file }
  assign (f,'test.fil');
  rewrite (f);
  for i:=1 to 10 do writeln (f,'Testline # ',i);
  close (f);
  { Do the call on made file. }
  if fpstat ('test.fil',info)<>0 then
     begin
       writeln('Fstat failed. Errno : ',fpgeterrno);
       halt (1);
     end;
  writeln;
  writeln ('Result of fstat on file ''test.fil''.');
  writeln ('Inode   : ',info.st_ino);
  writeln ('Mode    : ',info.st_mode);
  writeln ('nlink   : ',info.st_nlink);
  writeln ('uid     : ',info.st_uid);
  writeln ('gid     : ',info.st_gid);
  writeln ('rdev    : ',info.st_rdev);
  writeln ('Size    : ',info.st_size);
  writeln ('Blksize : ',info.st_blksize);
  writeln ('Blocks  : ',info.st_blocks);
  writeln ('atime   : ',info.st_atime);
  writeln ('mtime   : ',info.st_mtime);
  writeln ('ctime   : ',info.st_ctime);
  { Remove file }
  erase (f);
end.