Stat not showing correct inode numbers

Question

Trying to made my own ls command, using the stat structure to extract inode numbers of files, but continuous failure. here is my code:

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    DIR *mydir;
    struct dirent *myfile;
    struct stat mystat;

    mydir = opendir("./");
    int print = 0;
    while((myfile = readdir(mydir)) != NULL)
    {
        printf("%ld %s\n", mystat.st_ino , myfile->d_name);

   }

    closedir(mydir);

}

Here is the output i am getting:

140734253789760 ls.c
140734253789760 ..
140734253789760 .
140734253789760 pwd.o
140734253789760 ls.o
140734253789760 Untitled Document
140734253789760 test.c
140734253789760 usr
140734253789760 ls
140734253789760 pwd
140734253789760 install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
140734253789760 readme.txt
140734253789760 pwd.c
140734253789760 Assignment-01-Scripting.pdf
140734253789760 LGPL
140734253789760 test.o
140734253789760 s1.sh
140734253789760 libflashplayer.so

Now If I ls -ai in the terminal I gets this:

 655636 .                                            1060694 LGPL                680478 ls.o    674765 readme.txt   680539 Untitled Document
 674665 ..                                            680512 libflashplayer.so   680562 pwd     680524 s1.sh       1060712 usr
 680479 Assignment-01-Scripting.pdf                   680503 ls                  684547 pwd.c   684552 test.c
 674770 install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz   684548 ls.c                680510 pwd.o   680589 test.o

Answer 1

Stat can't get the inode number because it was not initialized by any file, to initialize it with a file following code is used:

     DIR *mydir;
     struct dirent *myfile;
     struct stat mystat;

     if (stat(myfile->d_name, &mystat) == -1) 
     {
        perror("stat");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }

     printf("%ld %s\n",(long) mystat.st_ino , myfile->d_name);