does the stat() function call use the inode of the file to
generate the information about a file? what is inode mostly
used for?

Answer Posted / kiruthikau

In Unix each and every directories and files have inode numbers.

In Unix files and directories are identified by inode number
only.

Using stat we can find the inode number for a file or directory.

inode contains the informations about the file or directory.




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