Method file_stat()
- Method file_stat
Stdio.Stat file_stat(string path, void|bool symlink)
- Description
Stat a file.
If the argument symlink is
1
symlinks will not be followed.- Returns
If the path specified by path doesn't exist
0
(zero) will be returned.Otherwise an object describing the properties of path will be returned.
- Note
In Pike 7.0 and earlier this function returned an array with 7 elements. The old behaviour can be simulated with the following function:
array(int) file_stat(string path, void|int(0..1) symlink) { File.Stat st = predef::file_stat(path, symlink); if (!st) return 0; return (array(int))st; }
- See also