> This there a Win32 API stat()-like function that makes it worth to write > win32/stat.c?
Not one that I have found. And: perl returns no value for block size and blocks on Activestate Perl 5.8.4 (on win32). C:\temp>echo "Hello World!" >hello C:\temp>perl -e "my $i=0; print map { $i++.\"\t$_\n\" } stat 'hello'" 0 2 1 0 2 33206 3 1 4 0 5 0 6 2 7 17 8 1097234100 9 1097234100 10 1097234100 11 12 Python doesn't seem to provide it either http://docs.python.org/lib/module-stat.html Should parrot skip it altogether, too?