Hi, I''m having difficulty''s implementing a new function in my program, I think the problem is in the use of pointers... I was hoping someone out here could help me ... I wrote a function that looks somewhat like this : int RefreshFileList(FileInfoT *theFiles, char *theDir, int (*select)(const struct dirent*), int fileAttr, int dirAttr) { struct dirent **f; int t1,dt,ft; FileInfoT buf; int fc = 0; fc = scandir(theDir, &f, select, alphasort); if ((theFiles = (FileInfoT *)realloc(theFiles, fc*sizeof(FileInfoT))) == NULL) { endwin(); printf( "\nnot enough memory to store directory listing... \n"); exit(1); }; ft = 0; dt = fc-1; for (t1=0;t1d_type == DT_DIR) { sprintf(theFiles[ft].name,"/%s",f[t1]->d_name); sprintf(theFiles[ft].path,"%s%s/",theDir,f[t1]->d_name); theFiles[ft].attr = fileAttr; ft++; } else { sprintf(theFiles[dt].name," %s",f[t1]->d_name); sprintf(theFiles[dt].path,"%s%s",theDir,f[t1]->d_name); theFiles[dt].attr = dirAttr; dt--; } free(f[t1]); } free(f); return(fc); } I cut some parts of the function becouse I did''nt seem to be important to the problem... But the function is designed to read a directory list, reformat and put it in theFiles... The function seems to work, or at least... calling it with fileCount = RefreshFileList(files, currentDir, FileListFileSelect, MFFILEA, MFDIRECTORYA); seems to wordt fine... But the program dies giving me a segmentation fault as soon as I try to access the files array using : files.name or anything like that.. (i < fileCount) I realy can''t figure out what the problem might be ... I hope someone can help me with this one...

hmmm.. Looking at my post...

I''m not such a HTML hacker so I just cut and past the source, but that did not seem to work out the way I imagined ...

well, al least the last programming statement should show how I acces files at a certain index and then the name property...

but the squarebracked followd by the letter ''i'' seems to make it go italic...

Use the source tags around your code delimted by [] and [/] with source inbetween the brackets.

okay... I''ll restate the problem using proper tags then...

This is my function

  int RefreshFileList(FileInfoT *theFiles, char *theDir, int (*select)(const struct dirent*), 		    int fileAttr, int dirAttr){ struct dirent **f; int t1,dt,ft; FileInfoT buf; int fc = 0; fc = scandir(theDir, &f, select, alphasort); if ((theFiles = (FileInfoT *)realloc(theFiles, fc*sizeof(FileInfoT))) == NULL)    {     endwin();      printf("\nnot enough memory to store directory listing... :(\n");     exit(1);     };  ft = 0; dt = fc-1; for (t1=0;t1<fc;t1++)    {     if (f[t1]->d_type == DT_DIR)        {         sprintf(theFiles[ft].name,"/%s",f[t1]->d_name);         sprintf(theFiles[ft].path,"%s%s/",theDir,f[t1]->d_name);	 theFiles[ft].attr = fileAttr;         ft++;         }      else        {         sprintf(theFiles[dt].name," %s",f[t1]->d_name);         sprintf(theFiles[dt].path,"%s%s",theDir,f[t1]->d_name);       	 theFiles[dt].attr = dirAttr;         dt--;         }     free(f[t1]);    }  free(f); return(fc);}  

This is the way I call it :

   fileCount = RefreshFileList(files, currentDir, FileListFileSelect, MFFILEA, MFDIRECTORYA);  

And this is the way I eventualy crash with a segmentation error :

   mvwaddstr(fileListWnd,t1+1-windowTop,1,files[t1].name);  

I hope someone will be able to look at this now...

(that the source tags did they''re work !)

Greetings and most sincere appology''s,
MustBMistakin