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From: "Alexandre P. Nunes" <alexnunes@escriba.com.br>
To: linux-gcc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stat() problems.
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:48:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D49201B.1090102@escriba.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1028188562.1091.4.camel@skt.int.local

Stefanos Koutsoutos wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm facing problems with stat() system call. It seems that it follows
>filesystem links! To be more accurate I try:
>
>struct stat buf;
>stat("this_is_a_link", &buf);
>
>and then:	S_ISLNK( buf.st_mode )  is false!
>
>More, the mode is the same as the mode of the file it links to! I think
>that this is not what it supposed to be done by stat(). Any ideas??
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Stefanos.
>
>  
>

stat() follows symlinks. That's why there's lstat(), try it instead.

Cheers,

Alexandre



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-01 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-01  7:56 stat() problems Stefanos Koutsoutos
2002-08-01 11:48 ` Alexandre P. Nunes [this message]
2002-08-01 12:05   ` Stefanos Koutsoutos
2002-08-28 20:50   ` C Language Reference for @ and : Nate
2002-08-28 22:16     ` Stephen Satchell
2003-01-15 20:00       ` Stack and Heap Nate

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