Name
lstat
Synopsis
lstat file
Like stat
,
returns information on file
, except
that if file
is a symbolic link,
lstat
returns information about
the link; stat
returns
information about the file pointed to by the link. (If symbolic
links are unimplemented on your system, a normal stat
is done instead.)
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