Re: [Chicken-users] Lstat problems

[Ed Watkeys]

Matt,

Try this:

(define file-ltype
  (foreign-lambda* int ((c-string filename)) "
    struct stat sb;
    if(lstat(filename, &sb) == -1)
      return (-1);
    else
      return (sb.st_mode & S_IFMT);"))

Lstat does not allocate memory, so you need to allocate the struct -- 
on the stack, in this case. I also changed your code to return -1 if 
there's an error and removed the unnecessary variables.

Regards,
Ed