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+.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2003 The Open Group, All Rights Reserved 
+.TH "LSTAT" 3P 2003 "IEEE/The Open Group" "POSIX Programmer's Manual"
+.\" lstat 
+.SH PROLOG
+This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
+The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult
+the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
+or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
+.SH NAME
+lstat \- get symbolic link status
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.LP
+\fB#include <sys/stat.h>
+.br
+.sp
+int lstat(const char *restrict\fP \fIpath\fP\fB, struct stat *restrict\fP
+\fIbuf\fP\fB);
+.br
+\fP
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.LP
+The \fIlstat\fP() function shall be equivalent to \fIstat\fP(), except
+when \fIpath\fP
+refers to a symbolic link. In that case \fIlstat\fP() shall return
+information about the link, while \fIstat\fP() shall return information
+about the file the link references.
+.LP
+For symbolic links, the \fIst_mode\fP member shall contain meaningful
+information when used with the file type macros, and the
+\fIst_size\fP member shall contain the length of the pathname contained
+in the symbolic link. File mode bits and the contents of
+the remaining members of the \fBstat\fP structure are unspecified.
+The value returned in the \fIst_size\fP member is the length
+of the contents of the symbolic link, and does not count any trailing
+null.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+.LP
+Upon successful completion, \fIlstat\fP() shall return 0. Otherwise,
+it shall return -1 and set \fIerrno\fP to indicate the
+error.
+.SH ERRORS
+.LP
+The \fIlstat\fP() function shall fail if:
+.TP 7
+.B EACCES
+A component of the path prefix denies search permission.
+.TP 7
+.B EIO
+An error occurred while reading from the file system.
+.TP 7
+.B ELOOP
+A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution of the
+\fIpath\fP argument.
+.TP 7
+.B ENAMETOOLONG
+The length of a pathname exceeds {PATH_MAX} or a pathname component
+is longer than {NAME_MAX}.
+.TP 7
+.B ENOTDIR
+A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
+.TP 7
+.B ENOENT
+A component of \fIpath\fP does not name an existing file or \fIpath\fP
+is an empty string.
+.TP 7
+.B EOVERFLOW
+The file size in bytes or the number of blocks allocated to the file
+or the file serial number cannot be represented correctly
+in the structure pointed to by \fIbuf\fP.
+.sp
+.LP
+The \fIlstat\fP() function may fail if:
+.TP 7
+.B ELOOP
+More than {SYMLOOP_MAX} symbolic links were encountered during resolution
+of the \fIpath\fP argument.
+.TP 7
+.B ENAMETOOLONG
+As a result of encountering a symbolic link in resolution of the \fIpath\fP
+argument, the length of the substituted pathname
+string exceeded {PATH_MAX}.
+.TP 7
+.B EOVERFLOW
+One of the members is too large to store into the structure pointed
+to by the \fIbuf\fP argument.
+.sp
+.LP
+\fIThe following sections are informative.\fP
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.SS Obtaining Symbolic Link Status Information
+.LP
+The following example shows how to obtain status information for a
+symbolic link named \fB/modules/pass1\fP. The structure
+variable \fIbuffer\fP is defined for the \fBstat\fP structure. If
+the \fIpath\fP argument specified the filename for the file
+pointed to by the symbolic link ( \fB/home/cnd/mod1\fP), the results
+of calling the function would be the same as those returned
+by a call to the \fIstat\fP() function.
+.sp
+.RS
+.nf
+
+\fB#include <sys/stat.h>
+.sp
+
+struct stat buffer;
+int status;
+\&...
+status = lstat("/modules/pass1", &buffer);
+\fP
+.fi
+.RE
+.SH APPLICATION USAGE
+.LP
+None.
+.SH RATIONALE
+.LP
+The \fIlstat\fP() function is not required to update the time-related
+fields if the named file is not a symbolic link. While
+the \fIst_uid\fP, \fIst_gid\fP, \fIst_atime\fP, \fIst_mtime\fP, and
+\fIst_ctime\fP members of the \fBstat\fP structure may
+apply to a symbolic link, they are not required to do so. No functions
+in IEEE\ Std\ 1003.1-2001 are required to maintain
+any of these time fields.
+.SH FUTURE DIRECTIONS
+.LP
+None.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.LP
+\fIfstat\fP(), \fIreadlink\fP(), \fIstat\fP(),
+\fIsymlink\fP(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE\ Std\ 1003.1-2001,
+\fI<sys/stat.h>\fP
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
+from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
+-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
+Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
+Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
+event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
+The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
+is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
+http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .