Hi all,
I want to find the size of proc file using C....can somebody help!!!!
me_ansh 0 Light Poster
nucleon 114 Posting Pro in Training
Does the size of a proc file make sense?
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
what is a "proc file"? If you want to find the size of a file that is stored on your hard drive then there are a cople opeions: (1) call _stat() function, or (2) open the file, seek to the end, then get the current file pointer position.
me_ansh 0 Light Poster
what is a "proc file"? If you want to find the size of a file that is stored on your hard drive then there are a cople opeions: (1) call _stat() function, or (2) open the file, seek to the end, then get the current file pointer position.
Well, proc file system is basically a virtual file system and these files are not stored in the hard disc of computer..if it would have been a regular file that is stored in the hard disc, then i could have easily found out the size but here my requirement is that as soon as i 'fopen()' a proc file, i want to know the total size of the proc file in bytes...as i want to read the whole proc file by using 'fread()'....i know that one option could have been using fgetc() uptill EOF is reached by i want to avoid that as it can be time consuming in case of very big proc files...can there be an alternative???
nucleon 114 Posting Pro in Training
Try reading 1000 bytes at a time with fread then.
me_ansh 0 Light Poster
Try reading 1000 bytes at a time with fread then.
Thanx nucleon... This seems to be a work around....i was hoping that somebody can hint me towards some standard way...newaz...thanx...
MosaicFuneral 812 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Have you tried seeking the end then telling the position(fseek, ftell)?
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