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From: "Alexandre P. Nunes" <alexnunes@escriba.com.br>
Subject: Re: stat() problems.
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:48:43 -0300
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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