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24 lines
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The dync utility is a small, but quite useful utility, which allows
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the use of C as a scripting language. This can be quite useful
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****SOMETIMES****, allowing access to system calls and library functions
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from the command line. For example, there are occasions when I want
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to see the struct stat for a directory entry, and want to be able to
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access st_mtime values, without having to parse output from "ls -l".
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A simple:
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int main(int argc, char **argv)
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{
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struct stat st;
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if (stat(argv[1], &st) == 0) {
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printf("%lld\n", st.st_mtime);
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}
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exit(0);
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}
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will do the job. If I was to try this by other means, I would either
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have to install all of Perl, and then learn its idiosyncratic syntax,
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or write a custom C program, which I would then have to compile on
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each architecture I need.
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This utility relies on there being a C compiler on the target machine,
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and a working dlopen(3).
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