9.542 lstat

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html

Gnulib module: lstat

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, lstat may not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. (Cf. AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.)
• For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don’t dereference the argument: Solaris 9.
• On some platforms, lstat("file/",buf) succeeds instead of failing with ENOTDIR. Solaris 9.
• On Solaris 11.3, when this function yields a timestamp with a nonpositive tv_sec value, tv_nsec might be in the range -1000000000..-1, representing a negative nanoseconds offset from tv_sec.
• On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so lstat does not exist.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• See sys/stat.h, for general portability problems with struct stat.