Finding type of path using the Windows API

Question

I'm trying to find the type of file a path is. I have this for Linux::

    pathType CFilesystem::findPathType(const string& path) const
    {
        struct stat info;
        int status = stat(path.c_str(), &info);

        if(status == -1)
        {
            switch(errno)
            {
                case ENOENT: // A component of the path does not exist.
                    return pathType::none;

                default:
                    return pathType::unknown;
            }
        }

        if(S_ISDIR(info.st_mode))
        {
            return pathType::directory;
        }

        if(S_ISREG(info.st_mode))
        {
            return pathType::file;
        }

        return pathType::unknown;
    }

But I'm not sure how to do the same for Windows. _stat doesn't seem to work (it says a file doesn't exist, even know I'm POSITIVE it exists. After all, the programming is running from it.

Answer 1

In windows, I think the function you are looking for is GetFileAttributesEx

You can also use the regular _stat function on windows as well though. Are you including sys/types.h and sys/stat.h?