Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Documenting stat(2) | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 19 Jan 2001 11:18:56 +0100 |
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Padraig Brady <Padraig@AnteFacto.com> writes:
|> dmeyer@dmeyer.net wrote: |> |> > 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. |> |> Nope stat should return the details of the symlink |> whereas lstat should return the details of the symlink target.
Nope, check the facts.
Andreas.
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