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Subject: RE: how to tell that a file exists and is not 0-len?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 3:50 PM
> To: FreeBSD Mailing List
> Subject: how to tell that a file exists and is not 0-len?
> 
> 
> 
> guys,
> 
> access(filenamewithpath, F_OK) returned true  as Zero if i have access to it.
what
> do i use in C to tell me that a file is not empty?

This should do:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
...
struct stat sb;
off_t size;
if (!lstat(pathbuf, &sb)) size = sb.st_size;
...

-- 
Devin

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