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According to David Kastrup on 6/26/2007 7:10 AM:
> 
> fstat, yes.  But shouldn't stat be able to report S_ISLNK on a broken
> link?

No.  It must fail with ENOENT.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/stat.html

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