Re: Checking path name for validity

David,

   I'm not certain what you're asking.  But, in general to validate
a pathname, use:

access() to determine if the pathname exists, and (optionally) if
you have access to do whatever your program will need to do.

if you want to create it if it doesnt exist, just use open() or
mkdir() to create it.  If open() or mkdir() fails, check errno
to determine why it failed.

If this doesn't help, maybe you can be a bit more specific as
to what you consider "a valid name", and why it wouldnt work
with multi-level directories.

Scott Klement
Information Systems Manager
Klement's Sausage Co, Inc.



David Gibbs <dgibbs@mks.com> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> Does anyone know of a routine or api that will check to see if a IFS
>  object would be valid name?
>
> Currently, we're just trying to create the directory ... but that
>  won't work for a multi-level directory.
>
> Thanks!
>
> david
>
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