[Libssh] sftp - determining directory item types

[Mike Taylor]

Seems like I can probably use the first character of the long name to  
determine the type of the entry.  How safe is that?

/\/\ike

On 15-May-08, at 7:43 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently picked up libssh and everything is going very well.
>
> I did hit a problem however.  I'm reading the elements of a  
> directory via sftp and I noticed that the "type" field is not set in  
> the SFTP_ATTRIBUTES structure.  That means I cannot tell which  
> directory entries are files and which are directories.  Knowing that  
> is pretty fundamental to what I'm doing.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  I'm willing to help  
> out and submit a patch if need be.
>
> /\/\ike
>