how to call fstat() with -1 file descriptor.

[dudekulashameer]

Hi All,

Please can you tell me how to proceede with this..
Thanks,
Shammer

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

See:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/fstat.2.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven Schweda]

At least one of us seems to be confused.

How do you get a file descriptor of -1,
except as an error indication?

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/open.2.html

And if it is only an error indication, what
do you expect to get from fstat()?

[Dennis Handly]

>Steven: At least one of us seems to be confused.

You sure are. :-)

>How do you get a file descriptor of -1, except as an error indication?

That's exactly it. Or you can do "int fd = -1;" dudekulashameer must be writing conformance tests.

>And if it is only an error indication, what do you expect to get from fstat(2)?

An explicit setting of errno, EBADF.

[Steven Schweda]

> dudekulashameer must be writing conformance
> tests.

My psychic powers are admittedly weak.
Much weaker than yours, apparently.