lstat

Description:

[ Version ( deprecated = true , since = "1.9.2" ) ]
public Stat lstat (string path) throws Error

Warning: lstat is deprecated.

get file information for a symbolic link

Note:

In new code, use lstatns instead

Returns file information for the given path.

This is the same as stat except that if path is a symbolic link, then the link is stat-ed, not the file it refers to.

This is the same as the lstat(2) system call.

Parameters:

this

A GuestfsSession object

Returns:

a Stat object, or NULL on error