system call readir and d_name

indian · 08-16-2004, 01:12 AM

Hi to all,
when using readdir system call I am using d_name to get the name of the directory.But I want to know all other information about that directory as I want to implement "ls -l " to list all the diretories.I am able to implement "ls" using d_name but how to get other imformation like permissions , date of creation and user ?
Thanks in anticipation....

cppkid · 08-16-2004, 01:16 AM

After getting the name from d_name you can get the statistics and information about that file or directory by using

stat() or fstat().

see man stat() and man fstat()