Make stat
actually recognize symlinks
#1480
Merged
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Whose bright idea was it to make the syscall you use to check the type of a path, not actually check the type of all paths, and instead hide the uniform behaviour behind a one-letter difference?
Regardless, the
stat
function was previously returningPathTypeRegularFile
(and permissions/size of the target file) when called on symlinks. It now returnsPathTypeSymlink
(and less helpful but more accurate permissions/size).