NAME

get_path_type - Determins type of path

SYNOPSIS

#include "l/l_sys_io.h"

Example compile flags (system dependent):
  -DLINUX_386 -DLINUX_386_P4  
   -I/home/kobus/include
   -L/home/kobus/load/linux_386_p4 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib
  -lKJB         -llapack -lblas -lg2c          -lXext -lX11 


Path_type get_path_type(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION

This routines determines the path type (file, directory, ...). It also is a reasonable way to find out if a path exists at all.

RETURNS

One of { PATH_DOES_NOT_EXIST, PATH_IS_REGULAR_FILE, PATH_IS_DIRECTORY, PATH_IS_LINK, PATH_IS_PIPE, PATH_IS_SOCKET,PATH_IS_BLOCK_SPECIAL, PATH_IS_CHARACTER_SPECIAL, PATH_IS_UNCLASSIFIED, PATH_ERROR }

Possible values for a

Path_type
are as follows:

DISCLAIMER

This software is not adequatedly tested. It is recomended that results are checked independantly where appropriate.

AUTHOR

Kobus Barnard

DOCUMENTOR

Kobus Barnard

SEE ALSO

kjb_read_exact , kjb_read , kjb_read_2 , safe_pipe_write , kjb_write , kjb_write_2 , kjb_fread_exact , kjb_fread , kjb_fread_2 , kjb_fwrite , kjb_fwrite_2 , kjb_fflush , kjb_ioctl , set_blocking , set_no_blocking , fget_line , dget_line , fput_line , kjb_mkdir , kjb_mkdir_2 , kjb_unlink , kjb_unlink_2 , kjb_rmdir , kjb_fopen , kjb_freopen , kjb_fdopen , kjb_fclose , kjb_realpath , get_fd_name , get_user_fd_name , kjb_fseek , kjb_ftell , kjb_fputs , kjb_fgetc , kjb_fputc , pso , p_stderr , kjb_fprintf , pdo , kjb_vfprintf , is_file , is_directory , fp_get_path_type , get_file_size , fp_get_byte_size , get_file_age , get_file_mod_time , print_underlined , start_stdout_shadow , stop_stdout_shadow , start_stderr_shadow , stop_stderr_shadow , kjb_glob , kjb_simple_glob