I use ls -l to list a file which is a link. I got the following.
/lib/terminfo.lnk -> ../share/terminfo
If I use stat("/lib/terminfo.lnk",buf), I get errno=2, which means No such
file or directory.
What is the reason for this contradictory result?
Thanx

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"Janice" <no@mail.com> writes:

> I use ls -l to list a file which is a link. I got the following.
> /lib/terminfo.lnk -> ../share/terminfo
> If I use stat("/lib/terminfo.lnk",buf), I get errno=2, which means No such
> file or directory.
> What is the reason for this contradictory result?

There is no contradiction here. Your soft links could point anywhere.

E.g.

% ln -s /doesntexist/doesntexist a
% ls -lgo a
lrwxrwxrwx   1      24 Oct 25 12:35 a -> /doesntexist/doesntexist


stat() call follows the link (lstat() doesn't). Does /share/terminfo exist
on your system?

Bye, Dragan

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Thank you for your reply.
The /share/terminfo doesnt exist.
Thank you for telling me the different between lstat and stat.

"Dragan Cvetkovic" <me@privacy.net> ???????:lmu0sidacj.fsf@privacy.net...
> "Janice" <no@mail.com> writes:
> 
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>
> There is no contradiction here. Your soft links could point anywhere.
>
> E.g.
>
> % ln -s /doesntexist/doesntexist a
> % ls -lgo a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1      24 Oct 25 12:35 a -> /doesntexist/doesntexist
>
>
> stat() call follows the link (lstat() doesn't). Does /share/terminfo exist
> on your system?
>
> Bye, Dragan
>
> --
> Dragan Cvetkovic,
>
> To be or not to be is true. G. Boole      No it isn't.  L. E. J. Brouwer
>
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