Gets information about a file with a specified pathname. File size is expressed as a 32-bit integer.

Syntax

#include <prio.h>

PRStatus PR_GetFileInfo(
  const char *fn,
  PRFileInfo *info);

Parameters

The function has the following parameters:

fn

The pathname of the file to get information about.

info

A pointer to a file information object (see PRFileInfo). On output, PR_GetFileInfo writes information about the given file to the file information object.

Returns

One of the following values:

• If the file information is successfully obtained, PR_SUCCESS.
• If the file information is not successfully obtained, PR_FAILURE.

Description

PR_GetFileInfo stores information about the file with the specified pathname in the PRFileInfo structure pointed to by info. The file size is returned as an unsigned 32-bit integer.

See Also

For the 64-bit version of this function, see PR_GetFileInfo64. To get equivalent information on a file that's already open, use PR_GetOpenFileInfo.