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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Re:  ftw (was Re: Anything faster than stat(S)? ...)
Message-ID: <863@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 22:08:06 GMT
References: <10299@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> <2400002@hpausla.aso.hp.com>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology
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I just had reason to use ftw in a program, and I thought
I'd pass this little tidbit along.  

For some reason, ftw calls stat, which returns information
on the file pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than
information about the link itself.  Sometimes you may want
to do this, but not (as in my case) when you're trying to
produce a report of disk usage.

The solution:  Supply a function stat which calls lstat.
It will be used by ld instead of the system stat.
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                     "Something is happening here,
Headland Technology/Video 7        What it is ain't exactly clear..."
...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp                 -- Pons & Fleischmann