| CARVIEW |
- #lstat FILEHANDLE
- #lstat EXPR
- #lstat DIRHANDLE
- #lstat
-
Does the same thing as the
statfunction (including setting the special_filehandle) but stats a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link points to. If symbolic links are unimplemented on your system, a normalstatis done. For much more detailed information, please see the documentation forstat.If EXPR is omitted, stats
$_.Portability issues: "lstat" in perlport.
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