Finding out if a directory is empty ...

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi folks,

I need to find out whether or not a directory is empty in order to properly
handle an error case for smbc_unlinkdir ...

I do not want to invoke the whole machinery of cli_list, which additionally
has what I consider a bug, in that I cannot short circuit the listing by
returning false from the list_fn.

In any case, I am thinking of creating a new function, cli_dir_empty or
something like that, which will essentially be copied from cli_list, but
will simply do a FIND_FIRST, and if anything comes back, will return False,
but if nothing comes back (except . and ..) will return True ...

Does anyone know of a better way to do this?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba