Re: Getting file attributes

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 16:26:04 -0700


* Niki Rahimi (narahimi@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have been working on finding a system call that will retrieve the
> current file's attributes, especially the file owner and permissions. have
> seen VOP_GETATTR() in OpenBSD, which returns such information in a
> structure. Is there anything equivalent to this on the Linux kernel?
> I've been searching through the kernel code for something equivalent
> but my paths have lead me nowhere.

does stat(2) have what you're lookig for??

cheers,
-chris
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