lstat
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POSIX specification: http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lstat.html

Gnulib module: lstat

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

  * When the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't dereference the argument.

  * On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so lstat does not exist.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

  * On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, lstat may not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.  The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.