Concatenating file with path to get full path in C

Question

Using C, I\'m trying to concatenate the filenames in a directory with their paths so that I can call stat() for each, but when I try to do using strcat inside the loop it co

Answer 1

Where is the memory that you are copying to? path is allocated on the stack to contain the arguments you need yo allocate the memory yourself e.g.

char path[1024] ;   // or some other number
strcpy( path, argv[1] );
// then separator
strcat( path, "/" ) ; // or "\\" in Windows
strcat( path, ep->d_name);

In production code se strncat etc to stop overflows