You’re using S_ISREG() and S_ISDIR() correctly, you’re just using them on the wrong thing. In your while((dit = readdir(dip)) != NULL) loop in main, you’re calling stat on currentPath over and over again without changing currentPath: if(stat(currentPath, &statbuf) == -1) { perror(“stat”); return errno; } Shouldn’t you be appending a slash and dit->d_name to currentPath … Read more
You missed the most important, biggest difference between them: glob gives you back a list, but opendir gives you a directory handle. You can pass that directory handle around to let other objects or subroutines use it. With the directory handle, the subroutine or object doesn’t have to know anything about where it came from, … Read more
I can’t speak definitively for PHP, but I suspect it’s the same basic problem as with Python 2 had (before later adding special support for Unicode string filenames). My belief is that PHP is dealing with filenames using the standard C library ‘open’-et-al functions, which are byte-based. On Windows (NT) these try to encode the … Read more
d_type is a speed optimization to save on lstat(2) calls, when it’s supported. As the readdir(3) man page points out, not all filesystems return real info in the d_type field (typically because it would take an extra disk seek to read the inode, as is the case for XFS if you didn’t use mkfs.xfs -n … Read more
The readdir method doesn’t guarantee any ordering. If you want to ensure they are sorted alphabetically you’ll need to do so yourself. Note: I searched for a bit for definitive documentation saying this is the case. The closest I came is the following link http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ReaddirOrder It’s by no means definitive but it does give a … Read more
I would suggest using FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(). sample code: HANDLE hFind; WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData; if((hFind = FindFirstFile(“C:/some/folder/*.txt”, &FindFileData)) != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){ do{ printf(“%s\n”, FindFileData.cFileName); }while(FindNextFile(hFind, &FindFileData)); FindClose(hFind); } This really is better, because i can use “*.txt” etc, makes it much more easier to find some specific filetypes, earlier i had to write own match function for … Read more
Classic readdir mistake: pDirent->d_name is the name of the directory entry, not a path to the file. It’s “1”, “4-5.c”, etc. So your stat calls are looking for a file with that name in the current directory, not under MyDirectory. Check the return value of stat. You’ll see that it’s ENOENT — except for . and … Read more
There are basically two ways of accomplishing this. In an async environment you’ll notice that there are two kinds of loops: serial and parallel. A serial loop waits for one iteration to complete before it moves onto the next iteration – this guarantees that every iteration of the loop completes in order. In a parallel … Read more