@section @code{stat}
@findex stat
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/stat.html}
+POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html}
-Gnulib module: ---
+Gnulib module: stat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+On some platforms, @code{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead
+of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
+FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
+@item
+On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give
+different results:
+mingw.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@item
Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
@code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
+@item
+On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0.
+@item
+Because of the definition of @code{struct stat}, it is not possible to
+portably replace @code{stat} via an object-like macro. Therefore,
+expressions such as @code{(islnk ? lstat : stat) (name, buf)} are not
+portable, and should instead be written @code{islnk ? lstat (name,
+buf) : stat (name, buf)}.
@end itemize