given inode and fs, determine if dir or not?

[Ed Gould]

>If I have an inode (and fs root) on hand, how do I tell whether that
>inode is a directory or not?  The definition of struct inode suggests
>that it's possible, but I can't find a man entry that says how.

If inode.i_mode == IFDIR, then inode is a directory.

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