5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not
13 correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
14 (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
16 For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't
17 dereference the argument:
20 On some platforms, @code{lstat("file/",buf)} succeeds instead of
21 failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
24 On Solaris 11.4, when this function yields a timestamp with a
25 nonpositive @code{tv_sec} value, @code{tv_nsec} might be in the range
26 @minus{}1000000000..@minus{}1, representing a negative nanoseconds
27 offset from @code{tv_sec}.
29 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so
30 @code{lstat} does not exist.
33 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
36 @xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.