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Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

 
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FRED Dennison
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‎01-04-2001 03:12 PM

‎01-04-2001 03:12 PM

Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

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?
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James A. Donovan
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‎01-04-2001 05:17 PM

‎01-04-2001 05:17 PM

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Re: Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

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.
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FRED Dennison
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‎01-04-2001 05:24 PM

‎01-04-2001 05:24 PM

Re: Interrogating Symbolic Links using stat(2)

Fantastic, works a charm!

Thanks
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