Re: POSIX and symbolic links ????

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

The problem is that symbolic links are not part of POSIX.1.  They're
included in the POSIX.1a supplement, for which there is no equivalent
Ada binding.  

But look at the C documentation for the system call lstat(), which I
think is included in the POSIX.1a system calls.  To quote from the man
page on my Sun:

     lstat() is like stat() except in the case  where  the  named
     file  is  a  symbolic  link,  in  which case lstat() returns
     information about the link, while stat() returns information
     about the file the link references.

Note that using symbolic links in a way that is visible to the program
is not POSIX.5-compliant.

				dave
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