printing information from stat(2)

Question

I have a file, and when I call stat(2) on it, I get:

  File: 'testarg.txt'
  Size: 8           Blocks: 1          IO Block: 121072 regular file
Device: 30h/48d Inode: 716627550   Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (74112/ laz18)   Gid: (72216/grp.csci.mentors)
Access: 2018-04-29 14:56:51.380908597 -0700
Modify: 2018-04-29 14:37:51.230987592 -0700
Change: 2018-04-29 14:37:51.231987501 -0700
 Birth: -

So I want to print out some information from this (and make it so that I can do the same for other files:

file name: testarg.txt  
user name: laz18  
group name: grp.csci.mentors
permissions: -rw-r--r-- 
links: 1
size: 8
modification time: 2018-4-29 14:37:51.230987592 -0700

but I'm not sure how to actually obtain this information from the stat call. I know it contains things like st_uid that contains the user id, but I don't know how to actually grab that and then print it.

Edit:

I have found a way to access some of the information returned by stat(), but these two still give me problems:

int userName = fileStats.st_uid; returns 74112 instead of laz18

int groupName = fileStats.st_gid; returns 72216 instead of grp.csci.mentors

I need some way of accessing those, and the manual pages do not say how to do so.

Look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3138600/correct-use-of-stat-on-c#3138623 and http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html please. — mustachioed, Apr 29 '18 at 22:16
This is [all documented](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/stat.2.html). — tadman, Apr 30 '18 at 00:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '18 at 00:37

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To get the user name from a user id, you can use getpwuid.

To get the group name from a group id, you can use getgrgid.

answered Apr 30 '18 at 00:37

melpomene

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medalib · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-30T00:52:49.847

To access user name and group name, you can use getpwuid(3) and getgrgid(3)

struct passwd *pwd;
struct group *grp;
struct stat sb;

if (stat(argv[1], &sb) == -1) {
    perror("stat");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

pwd = getpwuid(sb.st_uid);
if (pwd == NULL) {
    perror("getpwuid");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("User %s\n", pwd->pw_name);

grp = getgrgid(sb.st_gid);
if (grp == NULL) {
    perror("getgrgid");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("group %s\n", grp->gr_name);

You have to include this headers too:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <grp.h>
#include <pwd.h>

printing information from stat(2)

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