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Re: [ts-7000] Re: System command "stat" doesn't seem to exist

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: System command "stat" doesn't seem to exist
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:36:01 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Ed wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Thanks for your response.  I AM trying to get a file's last
> modification time from within a C program.  After experimenting a bit
> I found out that I can do a system call to "stat" from within my
> program, even though I can't seem to run "stat" from the command line.

Errr yes. Why not?  The "stat" program is a program that calls the same
function "stat" system call and decodes and displays the returned info.
just as you can...

>  A system call to stat returns the file's a_time and m_time, which is
> exactly what I needed.  I can covert the m_time to a broken-down time
> structure and extract the elements I need.  There is probably a much
> simpler way of doing this but for now this works.

 From within C code I cannot think of a better, more efficiant way to do
it!

happy coding
Jim


 
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