diff -r ca99a81745fe -r 1dee2330aa78 src/Platform-Posix.cpp
--- a/src/Platform-Posix.cpp	Tue Jan 01 15:34:07 2013 -0800
+++ b/src/Platform-Posix.cpp	Tue Jan 01 16:28:34 2013 -0800
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  * JITCraft. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
  */
 #include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -154,3 +155,19 @@
     return "/";
 }
 
+OS::PathType
+OS::InspectPath(const char *path)
+{
+    struct stat s;
+    int result = stat(path, &s);
+    if (result != 0)
+        return OS::Path_Invalid;
+
+    if (s.st_mode & S_IFDIR)
+        return OS::Path_Folder;
+    if (s.st_mode & S_IFREG)
+        return OS::Path_File;
+
+    return OS::Path_Invalid;
+}
+