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From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: use result of open(2) to check for presence
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Neat, but perhaps you should check the fstat return code.
It actually can fail, for example if the filesize cannot be represented in the
structure because it is too big.

Morten