Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 20:44:10 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: lstat symbolic link size Message-ID: <20040106014410.GA6850@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040106013026.21604.qmail@linuxmail.org> <20040106013824.GA6047@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040106013824.GA6047@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:38:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:30:26AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: >>lstat returns an incorrect symbolic link size, with size 11 bytes too large. > >lstat reports the actual size of the symlink file. Unless you can point >to a standard which indicates this is incorrect, we'll be sticking with >this long standing behavior. Actually, nevermind. SUSv3 says this: For symbolic links, the st_mode member shall contain meaningful information when used with the file type macros, and the st_size member shall contain the length of the pathname contained in the symbolic link. So, this is a PTC situation. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/