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> Hi there,
>                I hope someone can give me some help on this very quickly.  I have a project to do
> for university which involves the use of the stat system call.  For some reason the gcc compiler
> keeps telling me that 'mode_t' is undeclared, even though it is a type, defined in <stat.h>.  If I
> actually cut and paste the definition of 'mode_t' from <stat.h> directly to my little test program
> it works!! so why does it not see it in the header file??!!
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> Here is the little test program.  The problem is that when I try to compile it I get an eror
saying
> that 'mode_t' is undeclared.  This is strange because 'mode_t' is defined as a type in <stat.h>
and
> as I said, cutting and pasting the definition of 'mode_t' from the header file into my test
routine
> actually works!!  Please please let me know what is going on, why is gcc ignoring the definition
of
> 'mode_t' in the <stat.h> header file?
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> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
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> int main (int argc, char *argv[])
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> {
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>    struct stat buf;
>    mode_t mode;
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>    stat(argv[1], &buf);
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>    mode = buf.st_mode;
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>    printf("\n\n%d\n\n", mode);
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>    return 0;
>
> }
>
> Thanks in adavance,
>
>                                      Paul.
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