hdfsGetPathInfo()

Supported by libMapRClient for hadoop-2.x

Returns a dynamically-allocated hdfsFileInfo structure that contains information about the given path.

Call hdfsFreeFileInfo() when the structure is no longer needed.

See hdfsFileInfo() for information about the information that this object contains.

Signature

hdfsFileInfo * hdfsGetPathInfo(hdfsFS fs, const char* path)

Parameters

Parameter Description
fs The file system handle. Obtain this by calling one of the hdfsConnect() APIs.
path The path of the file.

Return Value

Returns a dynamically-allocated hdfsFileInfo structure on success, and NULL on error.

errno is set to EINVAL for invalid arguments and to EACCES for invalid access.