Hi -- On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, ahoward wrote: > in fact, lstat bar when bar is linked to foo should tell you that bar is also > a directory - which is does not on linux unless you lstat bar/ I thought lstat differs from stat specifically in that it reports on the link (rather than the thing the link points to). I'm not sure about the bar vs. bar/ distinction... but if it's just bar, I think lstat should report on the link itself. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack / candle.superlink.net work: blackdav / shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav