FStat

Retrieve information about a file

Declaration

Source position: line 0

Description

FStat gets information about the file specified in one of the following:

Path

a file on the filesystem.

Fd

a valid file descriptor.

F

an opened text file or untyped file.

and stores it in Info, which is of type stat. The function returns True if the call was succesfull, False if the call failed.

Errors

LinuxError is used to report errors.

sys_enoent

Path does not exist.

See also

Example

program example28;

{ Program to demonstrate the FStat function. }

uses oldlinux;

var f : text;
    i : byte;
    info : stat;

begin
  { Make a file }
  assign (f,'test.fil');
  rewrite (f);
  for i:=1 to 10 do writeln (f,'Testline # ',i);
  close (f);
  { Do the call on made file. }
  if not fstat ('test.fil',info) then
     begin
     writeln('Fstat failed. Errno : ',linuxerror);
     halt (1);
     end;
  writeln;
  writeln ('Result of fstat on file ''test.fil''.');
  writeln ('Inode   : ',info.ino);
  writeln ('Mode    : ',info.mode);
  writeln ('nlink   : ',info.nlink);
  writeln ('uid     : ',info.uid);
  writeln ('gid     : ',info.gid);
  writeln ('rdev    : ',info.rdev);
  writeln ('Size    : ',info.size);
  writeln ('Blksize : ',info.blksze);
  writeln ('Blocks  : ',info.blocks);
  writeln ('atime   : ',info.atime);
  writeln ('mtime   : ',info.mtime);
  writeln ('ctime   : ',info.ctime);
  { Remove file }
  erase (f);
end.