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Re: changing directories and getting filedates
Felix Kollmann wrote:
>Hmm, now it works. I wrote:
>
> struct stat *buffer;
> stat ("some/file", buffer);
No, that won't work. Unless you're lucky.
stat writes to the address you give it, assuming that it is a correctly
created/allocated stat structure. But your "buffer" pointer just points
*somewhere* - and certainly not to a correctly allocated structure.
At least not according to your code snippet.
Christian
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