How to check if a path is file, dir or does not exist cross platform?

[severe hedge]

Hello. I'm looking for a way to go through a list of paths that I got as command line arguments and find out for each one if it is a file or a directory or does not exist. It should work on linux, windows and macos.

[old plank]

the only good way to check is to try to open the file and catch error.FileNotFound

there’s also an error for trying to open a directory but I forgot what it’s called

probably error.IsDir or something

[severe hedge]

I've seen an issue that suggests I can't rely on the error.IsDir on all platforms. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5732

Although I read a bit about it I had hoped to be able to avoid to dive into the details (and testing on different OS) and "just" get a solution that works on the 3 mentioned OS.

Reading a bit more in those issues it looks like the current state is that it's not there yet but talked about/planned.

[round sand]

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/compiler/fmt.zig#L211-L220

[severe hedge]

Thank you. Do you know why error.AccessDenied also calls fmtPathDir?

[round sand]

I assume that's the error you get on windows when you try to open a dir as a file