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in reply to stat weirdness?

To work on the symlink instead of following it, do an lstat instead of stat. To use the tests, do an lstat and then e.g. -d _

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Re: Re: stat weirdness?
by z3d (Scribe) on Feb 26, 2004 at 11:59 UTC
    They should make it easy to find this stuff, like perldoc -f or something (that is a knock against me, btw). Thanks ysth,
    -mike


    "I have never written bad code. There are merely unanticipated features."
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