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SubjectRe: Documenting stat(2)
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.

Felix
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