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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" 2007-06-08 mtk: Added example program
.\" 2007-07-05 mtk: Added details on underlying system call interfaces
.\"
-.TH stat 2 2023-05-03 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH stat 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
stat, fstat, lstat, fstatat \- get file status
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -25,25 +25,25 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <sys/stat.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int stat(const char *restrict " pathname ,
.BI " struct stat *restrict " statbuf );
.BI "int fstat(int " fd ", struct stat *" statbuf );
.BI "int lstat(const char *restrict " pathname ,
.BI " struct stat *restrict " statbuf );
-.PP
+.P
.BR "#include <fcntl.h> " "/* Definition of " AT_* " constants */"
.B #include <sys/stat.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int fstatat(int " dirfd ", const char *restrict " pathname ,
.BI " struct stat *restrict " statbuf ", int " flags );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR lstat ():
.nf
/* Since glibc 2.20 */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
|| /* Since glibc 2.10: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
|| /* glibc 2.19 and earlier */ _BSD_SOURCE
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.BR fstatat ():
.nf
Since glibc 2.10:
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ and
(search) permission is required on all of the directories in
.I pathname
that lead to the file.
-.PP
+.P
.BR stat ()
and
.BR fstatat ()
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ retrieve information about the file pointed to by
the differences for
.BR fstatat ()
are described below.
-.PP
+.P
.BR lstat ()
is identical to
.BR stat (),
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ except that if
.I pathname
is a symbolic link, then it returns information about the link itself,
not the file that the link refers to.
-.PP
+.P
.BR fstat ()
is identical to
.BR stat (),
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ All of these system calls return a
.I stat
structure (see
.BR stat (3type)).
-.PP
+.P
.\" Background: inode attributes are modified with i_mutex held, but
.\" read by stat() without taking the mutex.
.IR Note :
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ which can still provide exactly the behavior of each of
.BR lstat (),
and
.BR fstat ().
-.PP
+.P
If the pathname given in
.I pathname
is relative, then it is interpreted relative to the directory
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ the calling process, as is done by
and
.BR lstat ()
for a relative pathname).
-.PP
+.P
If
.I pathname
is relative and
@@ -161,13 +161,13 @@ directory of the calling process (like
.BR stat ()
and
.BR lstat ()).
-.PP
+.P
If
.I pathname
is absolute, then
.I dirfd
is ignored.
-.PP
+.P
.I flags
can either be 0, or include one or more of the following flags ORed:
.TP
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ instead return information about the link itself, like
.BR fstatat ()
dereferences symbolic links, like
.BR stat ().)
-.PP
+.P
See
.BR openat (2)
for an explanation of the need for
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
POSIX.1-2008.
Linux 2.6.16,
glibc 2.4.
-.PP
+.P
According to POSIX.1-2001,
.BR lstat ()
on a symbolic link need return valid information only in the
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ POSIX.1-2008 tightens the specification, requiring
.BR lstat ()
to return valid information in all fields except the mode bits in
.IR st_mode .
-.PP
+.P
Use of the
.I st_blocks
and
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Similar remarks apply for
.BR fstat ()
and
.BR lstat ().
-.PP
+.P
The kernel-internal versions of the
.I stat
structure dealt with by the different versions are, respectively:
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ and various other enlarged fields and further padding in the structure.
(Various padding bytes were eventually consumed in Linux 2.6,
with the advent of 32-bit device IDs and nanosecond components
for the timestamp fields.)
-.PP
+.P
The glibc
.BR stat ()
wrapper function hides these details from applications,
@@ -438,13 +438,13 @@ and repacking the returned information if required for old binaries.
.\" interface, rather than the libc-kernel interface.
.\"
.\" (Note that the details depend on gcc being used as c compiler.)
-.PP
+.P
On modern 64-bit systems, life is simpler: there is a single
.BR stat ()
system call and the kernel deals with a
.I stat
structure that contains fields of a sufficient size.
-.PP
+.P
The underlying system call employed by the glibc
.BR fstatat ()
wrapper function is actually called
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ The following program calls
and displays selected fields in the returned
.I stat
structure.
-.PP
+.P
.\" SRC BEGIN (stat.c)
.EX
#include <stdint.h>