Re: [ROOT] how to check if file exist on castor?

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 16:38:40 MET 

Hi Steven,

 with the latest version of ROOT you could do:

gSystem->GetPathInfo("rfio:/castor/cern.ch/user/r/rdm/file.root", ...);

to see if the file exists and what its key attributes are.

Cheers, Fons.


On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 16:25, PASSMORE Steven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> could someone please tell me how I can check if a file exists on castor
> without getting an error message (something like 'rfstat', I would just
> like a return value indicating if it exists or not).
> I am using ROOT version 3.03.09 on solaris 5.7.
> 
> Thanks,
>     Steven
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