whats the difference when we get file size through
ftell(Filepointer) and getting it from stat()?
Which one is efficient?
“radha krishnan” <radha.nk@geind.ge.com> wrote in message
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whats the difference when we get file size through
ftell(Filepointer) and getting it from stat()?
stat() is expensive because it does an open and a close.
If you already have a file pointer ftell is ok (but you have to to an seek
at the end) but fstat is better
Which one is efficient?