How can I check whether this is directory-path or any filename-path?

Question

by this

Why does fopen("any_path_name",'r') not give NULL as return?

i get to know that in linux directories and files are considered to b

Answer 1

thanks zed_0xff and lgor Oks

this things can be check by this sample code

#include
#include 
#include 
#include 
int main()
{
struct stat statbuf;

FILE *fb = fopen("/home/jeegar/","r");
if(fb==NULL)
    printf("its null\n");
else
    printf("not null\n");

stat("/home/jeegar/", &statbuf);

if(S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode))
    printf("directory\n");
else
    printf("file\n");
return 0;
}

output is

its null
directory