Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 28, 2018 14:43 UTC (Wed) by sorokin (guest, #88478)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by bandrami
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

> statat(2) doesn't interact with the filename at all, does it?

Unfortunately it does. See "pathname" parameter: int fstatat(int dirfd, const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf, int flags);

It stats the file "pathname" relative to directory "dirfd". Normally when readdir returns DT_UNKNOWN one has to statat the filename relative to the directory to figure out the real d_type.