What's the best way to check if a file exists in C? (cross platform)
有没有比简单地尝试打开文件更好的方法？
int exists(const char *fname)
{
FILE *file;
if ((file = fopen(fname, "r")))
{
fclose(file);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
Look up the access() function, found in unistd.h . You can replace your function with
if( access( fname, F_OK ) != -1 ) {
// file exists
} else {
// file doesn't exist
}
You can also use R_OK , W_OK , and X_OK in place of F_OK to check for read permission, write permission, and execute permission (respectively) rather than existence, and you can OR any of them together (ie check for both read and write permission using R_OK|W_OK )
Update: Note that on Windows, you can't use W_OK to reliably test for write permission, since the access function does not take DACLs into account. access( fname, W_OK ) may return 0 (success) because the file does not have the read-only attribute set, but you still may not have permission to write to the file.
Use stat like this:
int file_exist (char *filename)
{
struct stat buffer;
return (stat (filename, &buffer) == 0);
}
and call it like this:
if (file_exist ("myfile.txt"))
{
printf ("It existsn");
}
Usually when you want to check if a file exists, it's because you want to create that file if it doesn't. Graeme Perrow's answer is good if you don't want to create that file, but it's vulnerable to a race condition if you do: another process could create the file in between you checking if it exists, and you actually opening it to write to it. (Don't laugh... this could have bad security implications if the file created was a symlink!)
If you want to check for existence and create the file if it doesn't exist, atomically so that there are no race conditions, then use this:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
fd = open(pathname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
if (fd < 0) {
/* failure */
if (errno == EEXIST) {
/* the file already existed */
...
}
} else {
/* now you can use the file */
}
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