Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:56:35 +0100 | From | Felix von Leitner <> | Subject | Re: Documenting stat(2) |
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Thus spake Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com): > Here is what I think I know about stat(2) that isn't in the > Linux man pages:
> * For a symlink (S_IFLNK) it reports the size of the link file, not the > size of the file the link points to.
I think you confuse stat and lstat here.
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