GetFileAttributes

Description

Retrieves given file attributes.

Syntax

DWORD GetFileAttributes( LPCSTR lpcszFilename )

Parameters

lpcszFilename

[input] full pathname of the file.

Return

a bitfield with the following possible bits:

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY 0x00000001

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN 0x00000002

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM 0x00000004

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY 0x00000010

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE 0x00000020

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED 0x00000040

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL 0x00000080

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY 0x00000100

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE 0x00000200

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT 0x00000400

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED 0x00000800

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE 0x00001000

FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED 0x00002000

Examples

EX1

int    GetFileAttributes_ex1()
{
    DWORD    dwAttributes = GetFileAttributes("c:\\config.sys");
    printf("File attributes are: %#x\n", dwAttributes);
    return 1;
}

Remark

See Also

GetFileAttributesEx

header to Include

origin.h

Reference