From: dmeyer@dmeyer.net
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Documenting stat(2)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 02:05:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010118020528.A16871@jhereg.dmeyer.net> (raw)
In article <9463fj$gsq$1@penguin.transmeta.com> you write:
> Basically, the _only_ think you should depend on is that st_size
> contains:
> - for regular files, the size of the file in bytes
> - for symlinks, the length of the symlink.
I don't think this is right - for a symlink, stat should return the
size of the file; lstat should return the size of the symlink.
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David M. Meyer
dmeyer@dmeyer.net
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-18 7:05 dmeyer [this message]
2001-01-18 11:53 ` Documenting stat(2) Padraig Brady
2001-01-18 15:54 ` dmeyer
2001-01-18 20:52 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2001-01-19 1:00 ` Mike Castle
2001-01-20 19:39 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2001-01-19 10:18 ` Andreas Schwab
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2001-01-18 5:28 Eric S. Raymond
2001-01-18 6:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 12:56 ` Felix von Leitner
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