Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] stats vs lstat for command line files
Date: Wednesday, 09 Sep 2020, 19:38:23

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > If I run /c/cs323/Hwk1/fiend -L file1, I get the same if I run
    > /c/cs323/Hwk1/fiend file1 which is stat(file1) failed (assuming file1
    > doesnt exist in my directory). The output of both is "stat(file1) Failed".
    > Does this mean for the command line we can use stat for both -L and -P?
    > Because isn't stat and lstat be giving slightly different information (one
    > about link, and other about target).

No.  For example, if foo is a symbolic link to itself,
then -L and -P give different answers:

  % find -L foo
  find: 'foo': Too many levels of symbolic links
  % find -P foo
  foo

--Stan-