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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject:  Re: Problem with stat
Date:  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:41:21 +0200
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Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:

> 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

No information there.  "component of a path" has nothing to do with
symlink resolution.

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David Kastrup


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