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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 0befbd9b | 5 | .\" @(#)stat.3 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 7df84d9c | 6 | .\" |
| 0befbd9b | 7 | .TH STAT 3F "" |
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8 | .UC 5 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | stat, lstat, fstat \- get file status | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B integer function stat (name, statb) | |
| 13 | .br | |
| 14 | .B character*(*) name | |
| 15 | .br | |
| 16 | .B integer statb(12) | |
| 17 | .sp 1 | |
| 18 | .B integer function lstat (name, statb) | |
| 19 | .br | |
| 20 | .B character*(*) name | |
| 21 | .br | |
| 22 | .B integer statb(12) | |
| 23 | .sp 1 | |
| 24 | .B integer function fstat (lunit, statb) | |
| 25 | .br | |
| 26 | .B integer statb(12) | |
| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 28 | These routines return detailed information about a file. | |
| 29 | .I Stat | |
| 30 | and | |
| 31 | .I lstat | |
| 32 | return information about file | |
| 33 | .IR name ; | |
| 34 | .I fstat | |
| 35 | returns information about the file associated with fortran logical unit | |
| 36 | .I lunit. | |
| 37 | The order and meaning of the information returned in array | |
| 38 | .I statb | |
| 39 | is as described for the structure | |
| 40 | .I stat | |
| 41 | under | |
| 42 | .IR stat (2). | |
| 43 | The ``spare'' values are not included. | |
| 44 | .PP | |
| 45 | The value of either function will be zero if successful; | |
| 46 | an error code otherwise. | |
| 47 | .SH FILES | |
| 48 | .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a | |
| 49 | .el /usr/lib/libU77.a | |
| 50 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 51 | stat(2), access(3F), perror(3F), time(3F) | |
| 52 | .SH BUGS | |
| 53 | Pathnames can be no longer than MAXPATHLEN as defined in | |
| 54 | .RI < sys/param.h >. |