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lstat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html
Gnulib module: lstat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
off_t
is a 32-bit type, lstat
may not
correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
(Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
.)
lstat("file/",buf)
succeeds instead of
failing with ENOTDIR
.
Solaris 9.
lstat
does not exist.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
struct stat
.