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Re: Problem with stat
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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