Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:42:51 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: lstat returns bogus values. |
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>> The "kernelly-corrected" stuff should have been returned by lstat() > >What should lstat return for a cdrom device node that has no medium? >Should "ls -l /dev/cdrom" block until you have inserted a CD? > Given that /dev/cdrom is a symlink on many systems, it should just dereference the symlink :)
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