Open System Services System Calls Reference Manual (G06.28+)

stat(2) OSS System Calls Reference Manual
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: chmod(2), chown(2), link(2), lstat(2), mknod(2), open(2), pipe(2), utime(2).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
The POSIX standards leave some features to the implementing vendor to define. These features
are affected in the HP implementation:
• For files other than regular disk files or symbolic links, the st_size field
of the stat structure is set to 0 (zero). For directories, st_size is set to
4096.
• The S_IRWXU, S_IRWXG, S_IRWXO, S_IFMT, S_ISVTX,
S_ISGID, and S_ISUID bits are ORed into the st_mode field of the stat
structure.
The stat() function does not return the errno value [EOVERFLOW].
HP extensions to the XPG4 Version 2 specification are:
• The errno values [EFAULT], [EFSBAD], [ENOROOT], [ENXIO], and
[EOSSNOTRUNNING] can be returned by the stat() function.
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