lstat (GNU Gnulib)

Gnulib module: lstat

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, lstat may not correctly report the size of files or block devices 2 GiB and larger. See Large File Support.
On Linux/x86 and Linux/x86_64, applications compiled in 32-bit mode cannot access files that happen to have a 64-bit inode number. This can occur with file systems such as XFS (typically on large disks) and NFS. See Large File Support.
For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don’t dereference the argument: Solaris 9.
On some platforms, lstat("file/",buf) succeeds instead of failing with ENOTDIR. macOS 14, Solaris 9.
On macOS 12.6, when this function yields a timestamp with a nonpositive tv_sec value, tv_nsec might be in the range -999999999..-1, representing a negative nanoseconds offset from tv_sec. Solaris 11.4 is similar, except that tv_sec might also be -1000000000.
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so lstat does not exist.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: