The stat(2) system call on POSIX systems. For statistics, use the statistics instead.
The stat(2) system call is used to retrieve information about a named file (or directory).
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For statistics, use the statistics tag instead.
Questions tagged [stat]
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Python's os stat is returning wrong inode value
I'm running CentOS Linux.
I create a directory as follows using a proprietary filesystem:
$ mkdir fooDir
First, I check the inode value using "ls -ldi":
$ ls -ldi
total 4
9223372036854783200 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 6 20:58 fooDir
Then,…
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race-free directory walk (C++)
I need to walk a directory tree and get stat values for every file. I want to do this safely while the filesystem is being modified.
In Python, the best option is os.fwalk, which gives access to the fd for the directory being traversed; I can then…
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stat() function doesnt seem to be working in test PAM module
I'm trying to write a PAM module. The PAM module creates a directory on first log in. Very similar to the pam_mkhomedir.
Here is the code.
PAM_EXTERN int
pam_sm_open_session (pam_handle_t *pamh, int flags, int argc,
const char…
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How can I get the last modified time of a directory in Perl on Windows?
In Perl (on Windows) how do I determine the last modified time of a directory?
Note:
opendir my($dirHandle), "$path";
my $modtime = (stat($dirHandle))[9];
results in the following error:
The dirfd function is unimplemented at scriptName.pl line…
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Golang exec: stat: no such file or directory after file has been moved there
I have a script that I am using for deployment using the "os/exec" package. One of the commands that I use is as follows:
cpInit = exec.Command("cp", "initScripts/nginx", "/etc/init.d/nginx")
and another:
startNginx =…
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How do I get the generation number of an inode in Linux?
Summary: I want to get the generation number (i_generation) of a file in Linux (or at least ext4) from userspace. Or, alternatively, the 'birth time' (file creation time).
I am trying to write a bidirectional file synchronisation program (aka…
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postgres could not stat file Permission denied
This is a problem using stats(), or just when calculating the database size. Using postgresql in windows 7, localhost.
The problem after doing this is:
"could not stat file "base/17436/119145": Permission denied"
I spent a lot of time trying to fix…
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using st_mode to identify file or directory
is there any way to identify whether an object is file or directory using st_mode value?
I'm using paramiko lstat() to retrieve the st_mode information from sftp files.
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Static members in VB.NET
I used to write this:
Private Sub Example()
Static CachedPeople As List(Of MyApp.Person)
If CachedPeople Is Nothing Then
CachedPeople = New List(Of MyApp.Person)
End If
...rest of code...
End Sub
But then wondered if I could reduce this…
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Linux, C: access() not catching permission problems, or something
I am writing a program to mimic some of the behavior of find that walks a directory tree and calls lstat on the files it finds there to determine their type. The real find will ignore files where the user does not have R or X access in that…
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cstime error in /proc/pid/stat file
stime or cstime in /proc/pid/stat file is so huge that doesn't make any sense. But just some processes have this wrong cstime on occasion. Just as following:
# ps -eo pid,ppid,stime,etime,time,%cpu,%mem,command |grep nsc
4815 1 Jan08 1-01:20:02…
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STAT Block size/blocks used
I have a question which is confusing me and my task is to work out fragmentation.
stat() for a file:
st_size = 10520
st_blksize = 4096
st_blocks = 24
I have read in some places that st_blksize is the general block size of the file system which in…
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Intercepting stat()
I have successfuly intercepted calls to read(),write(),open(),unlink(),rename(), creat() but somehow with exactly the same semantics intercepting stat() is not taking place. I have changed the execution environmnet using LD_PRELOAD.
Am I missing…
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How to generate a NUL-delimited stream of timestamped filenames with BSD `stat` command
Let's suppose that you need to generate a NUL-delimited stream of timestamped filenames.
On Linux & Solaris I can do it with:
stat --printf '%.9Y %n\0' -- *
On BSD, I can get the same info, but delimited by newlines, with:
stat -f '%.9Fm %N' --…
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How to find cause of ClientRead wait_event in Postgresql pg_stat_activity?
I've got an endpoint which receives a lot of data. It inserts it into a table called ingress. I've also written a couple parsers which loop over the messages in the ingress table and parse it into various other tables.
I've been having a lot of…
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