Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Symbolic Link Detection
Date: Friday, 04 Sep 2020, 21:56:56

    > Message Posted By: Anonymous
    >
    > The textbook states: "...lstat returns information about the link itself,
    > and stat returns information about the file to which the link refers."
    > Would it be safe to assume that stat() already includes a "check" of sorts
    > to determine whether something is a symbolic link? (Since the information
    > returned is what the file is referring to?)

The quotation above means that "If A is a symbolic link
to file B, then stat("A") returns information about B
(including whether B exists) while lstat("B") returns
information about A.

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--Stan-