Re: bin/47333: stat -L undocumented behavior

["Jeremy C. Reed via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47333; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/47333: stat -L undocumented behavior
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 19:16:14 +0000 (UTC)

 This ticket is over a decade old. But the change is over two decades
 so maybe we should just document it.
 I don't see any Unix spec for this. But here is example from Linux 
 coreutils:
 
 reed@ns1:~$ ln -s doesnotexist linktest
 reed@ns1:~$ stat linktest 
   File: linktest -> doesnotexist
   Size: 12              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
 Device: 8,1     Inode: 129555      Links: 1
 Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: ( 1000/    reed)   Gid: ( 1000/    reed)
 Access: 2025-05-02 21:09:33.291973078 +0200
 Modify: 2025-05-02 21:09:29.739973078 +0200
 Change: 2025-05-02 21:09:29.739973078 +0200
  Birth: 2025-05-02 21:09:29.739973078 +0200
 reed@ns1:~$ stat -L linktest 
 stat: cannot statx 'linktest': No such file or directory
 reed@ns1:~$ ls -l linktest 
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 reed reed 12 May  2 21:09 linktest -> doesnotexist