Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:05:28 -0500 | | From | dmeyer@dmeyer ... | | Subject | Documenting stat(2) |
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In article <9463fj$gsq$1@penguin.transmeta.com> you write: > Basically, the _only_ think you should depend on is that st_size > contains: > - for regular files, the size of the file in bytes > - for symlinks, the length of the symlink.
I don't think this is right - for a symlink, stat should return the size of the file; lstat should return the size of the symlink.
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