[Caml-list] Unix.stat problem

[Caml-list] Unix.stat problem

[skaller]

Unix.stat (or my brain:) isn't working correctly on my system:
CVS Ocaml, Linux, Redhat 9:
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

When I stat a symbolic link which is a directory,
it is returning S_DIR as the kind. This is wrong,
the name is a link, it should return S_LNK.

Consequently it is impossible to make a directory
tree (because I have a stupid directory containing
a link to itself, namely /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml

However 'ls' has no problem, it knows it is a symbolic link:

4 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          800 Jan 25  2003 HTMLtree.h
0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            1 Jan  9 20:06 libxml -> ./

Please tell me if you know a workaround,  if this really
is a bug (in which case I'll file a report in the bug tracker),
or if I'm just missing something ..

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Re: [Caml-list] Unix.stat problem

[Yutaka OIWA]

Hi John,

>> On 24 May 2004 15:56:05 +1000, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> said:

skaller> Unix.stat (or my brain:) isn't working correctly on my system:
skaller> CVS Ocaml, Linux, Redhat 9:
skaller> gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

From Linux man stat(2):

       stat stats the file pointed to by file_name and  fills  in
       buf.

       lstat  is  identical to stat, except in the case of a sym-
       bolic link, where the link itself is stat-ed, not the file
       that it refers to.

So what you want is probably 

        val lstat : string -> stats
        (** Same as {!Unix.stat}, but in case the file is a symbolic link,
           return the informations for the link itself. *)
        
this one...

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Re: [Caml-list] Unix.stat problem

[skaller]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:08, Yutaka OIWA wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> >> On 24 May 2004 15:56:05 +1000, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> said:
> 
> skaller> Unix.stat (or my brain:) isn't working correctly on my system:
> skaller> CVS Ocaml, Linux, Redhat 9:
> skaller> gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

> 
> So what you want is probably 
> 
>         val lstat : string -> stats

Arggg, my brain wasn't working. For some reason
I considered lstat and got the whole concept backwards.
Thanks!

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