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Re: [TCLUG:10781] Help with C



Quoting Jonathan Kline (jonathankl@sabis.org):
> Got a C questions for all you techs out there:
> 	In C for Linux how do you determine the size of a file?  The goal
> is to check the file size and alert the user if it is greater then a
> certain number of bytes.  Anyone have any thoughts on the idea?

Look at the stat function.

% man 2 stat
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