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Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

FRED Dennison — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:12:36 GMT

Am writing a C program that uses stat to retrieve the File Size. Whenever I try this on a symbolic link, I get the File Size of the File that is linked to, not the size of the Link itself.

How would I get around this?

Re: Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

James A. Donovan — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:17:02 GMT

See lstat(2). This function returns the "size" of the symbolic link (the length of the path to the real file) in the st_size member.

Re: Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

FRED Dennison — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:24:46 GMT

Fantastic, works a charm!

Thanks