Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:19:36 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Checking to see if I file exists
In-Reply-To:	<62p2v2$1am@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971027111911.19645E-100000@is>
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On 24 Oct 1997, firewind wrote:

> This could be misleading though... fopen() can fail for many more reasons
> than simply, 'file does not exist'...

To be sure that `fopen' failed because the file did not exist, the
code should check if errno == ENOENT.

But I agree that `fopen' is not the best way to test whether a file
exists, primarily because it's a very expensive system call.  `stat'
or `access' are better.  `__file_exists' is better still, but it's
non-portable.

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