STAT(3P)

💅 STAT(3P) — bestie, it's the POSIX Programmer's Manual ✨

okay so real talk, this one is a POSIX Programmer's Manual page, which means it lives in the group chat called POSIX, not the Linux one. Important lore below 👇

🚨 PROLOG 🚨

okay so before literally anything else, you need to know this:

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so bestie, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details on Linux behavior, fr fr. OR, plot twist, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 😭 Not every icon gets a Linux era, iykyk.

✨ NAME ✨

stat — get file status 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <sys/stat.h>

int stat(const char *restrict path, struct stat *restrict buf);

like, that's the whole thing. two lines. iconic. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: refer to fstatat().

that's it. that's the description. this page is giving "the real one is over there" energy and honestly? respect. go read fstatat(), bestie. 💖

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

💀 In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. So like, if they fight, the original wins. no cap. That's the main character. 👑

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

okay that's the whole page, and the sign-off at the bottom is IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — so shoutout to them for the year, and yes bestie, this is STAT(3P) and you absolutely ate by reading the whole thing. 💅✨🎀