@node stat
@section @code{stat}
@findex stat

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html}

Gnulib module: stat

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{stat} may not correctly
report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
(Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
@item
On some platforms, @code{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead
of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
@item
On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give
different results:
mingw, MSVC 9.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
@xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.
@item
Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
@code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
@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
