Alternatives to using stat() to get file type?

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Published on 2010-04-01T13:21:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 13:23 UTC
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Are there any alternatives to stat (which is found on most Unix systems) which can determine the file type? The manpage says that a call to stat is expensive, and I need to call it quite often in my app.

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