On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:38:24PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:30:26AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: >>lstat returns an incorrect symbolic link size, with size 11 bytes too large. > >lstat reports the actual size of the symlink file. Unless you can point >to a standard which indicates this is incorrect, we'll be sticking with >this long standing behavior.
Actually, nevermind. SUSv3 says this: For symbolic links, the st_mode member shall contain meaningful information when used with the file type macros, and the st_size member shall contain the length of the pathname contained in the symbolic link. So, this is a PTC situation. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
