David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes: > >> fstat, yes. But shouldn't stat be able to report S_ISLNK on a broken > >> link? > > > > No. It must fail with ENOENT. > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/stat.html > > No information there. "component of a path" has nothing to do with > symlink resolution. >
"If the named file is a symbolic link, the stat() function shall continue pathname resolution using the contents of the symbolic link, and shall return information pertaining to the resulting file if the file exists." In other words, if file is a broken symlink, symlink resolution MUST take place, at which point, the brokenness of the symlink means that stat() MUST fail with ENOENT because a component of the path does not exist. Cygwin is correct here, as is Linux. -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
