Re: Documenting stat(2)

From: Felix von Leitner (leitner@convergence.de)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 07:56:35 EST

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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.

Felix
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