Program to determine size of a directory

[doppelgangland]

Hello, I need to write a program to control the size of several users' directories. Is there a way to determine it from a C++ program, or should I take another approach?

[chrisname]

What's the operating system?

[moorecm]

What do you mean by control? Do you plan to manipulate files, place limits on their sizes, or just monitor disk usage?

Does this help?
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

[doppelgangland]

chrisname, OS is Windows XP.

I know what I would do with a Linux box, but not in Windows, not especially when the users have named directories after themselves and are letting them grow wild.

What I mean is that I need to store the directories' size somewhere, so I can monitor which users are exceeding the limit.

Sort of like quotas, but informal. Hope I explained it better this time.

[Albatross]

I recommend using moorecm's link. Here it is again:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

-Albatross

[chrisname]

Well, on Linux you would use stat (sys/stat.h) but I'm not sure about Windows (unless you compile with Cygwin's gcc).