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)

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

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.