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From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: Documenting stat(2)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:56:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010118135635.A12276@convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010118002812.A19810@thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010118002812.A19810@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:28:12AM -0500

Thus spake Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com):
> Here is what I think I know about stat(2) that isn't in the
> Linux man pages:

> * For a symlink (S_IFLNK) it reports the size of the link file, not the
> size of the file the link points to.

I think you confuse stat and lstat here.

Felix
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-18 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-18  5:28 Documenting stat(2) Eric S. Raymond
2001-01-18  6:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-18 12:56 ` Felix von Leitner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-18  7:05 dmeyer
2001-01-18 11:53 ` 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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