lstat symbolic link size

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 6 01:44:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:30:26AM +0800, peter garrone wrote:
>lstat returns an incorrect symbolic link size, with size 11 bytes too large.

lstat reports the actual size of the symlink file.  Unless you can point
to a standard which indicates this is incorrect, we'll be sticking with
this long standing behavior.

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