From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fstat & C++ iostreams
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 02:11:41 -0700
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S2200253 AT nickel DOT laurentian DOT ca wrote:

> I'm writting a program in C++ that needs to find out the time/date
> stamp on a file, which it will have open for reading from.
> 
> To call the function fstat will I have to re-open the given file
> using the "old" C FILE method or is there a way to do so with
> the already open file stream?

Eh?  POSIX fstat takes a file descriptor (and int), not a FILE *.  Either
way, you're going to have to do it separately from a FILE * or an istream.

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