Given the path, is there a way to find out whether the file exists without opening the file?
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Given the path, is there a way to find out whether the file exists without opening the file?
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The most efficient way is
accesswith theF_OKflag.statalso works but it’s much heavier weight since it has to read the inode contents, not just the directory.