lstat

A wrapper for the POSIX lstat() function. The lstat() function is like stat() except that in the case of symbolic links, it returns information about the symbolic link itself and not the file that it refers to. If the system does not support symbolic links glib.global.lstat is identical to glib.global.stat.

See your C library manual for more details about lstat().

int

lstat

(

string filename

glib.types.StatBuf buf

)

Parameters

filename string: a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows)
buf glib.types.StatBuf: a pointer to a stat struct, which will be filled with the file information

Return Value

Type: int

0 if the information was successfully retrieved, -1 if an error occurred