5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 When the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't dereference the
15 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so
16 @code{lstat} does not exist.
19 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
22 On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not
23 correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. The fix
24 is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.