Documenting stat(2)

dmeyer@dmeyer.net
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:05:28 -0500

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.

-- 
David M. Meyer
dmeyer@dmeyer.net
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