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From: "Marek Brudka (A. Pacut)" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.qnx,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: struct stat.st_type in Watcom C/C++ v9.5 for QNX
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 20:59:39 +0200
Organization: Warsaw University of Technology
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Hi,
According to the "WATCOM C LIBRARY REFERENCE FOR QNX" the structure stat
in sys/stat.h should contain the field _ftype_t st_type that allows to
identify the type of given file i.e if it is fifo, regular, directory
etc. Unfortunatelly there is no st_type in this structure. Moreover
there is no field of _ftype_t in the structure stat that makes me able
to recognize the file (althought the field st_spare0 is the appropriate
type, its values are usually useless). Could anybody tell me then what
is the way of checking the type of a file?

                    Thanks
                    Marek Brudka
                    [e-mail]