Question

I trying to get size of files in a directory by using dirent.h headers. However

stat(ent->d_name, &statbuf)

returns always -1 and I can’t get the size properly. What could be the reason?

Answer 1

d_name contains the name of the file within that directory. stat wants a name including the directory part, unless it’s the current directory.

Make a temporary string containing the full path to the d_name file.

EDIT: Sample

char const * DirName = "/tmp";
....
char * FullName = (char*) malloc(strlen(DirName) + strlen(ent->d_name) + 2); 
strcpy(FullName, DirName);
strcat(FullName, "/");
strcat(FullName, ent->d_name);
stat(FullName, &statbuf);
free(FullName);