From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:57:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:57:32 -0500 Received: from felix.convergence.de ([212.84.236.131]:4877 "EHLO convergence.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:57:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:56:35 +0100 From: Felix von Leitner To: Linux Kernel List Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" Subject: Re: Documenting stat(2) Message-ID: <20010118135635.A12276@convergence.de> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel List , "Eric S. Raymond" In-Reply-To: <20010118002812.A19810@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010118002812.A19810@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:28:12AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/