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• @node fstatat
  @section @code{fstatat}
  @findex fstatat
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html}
  
  Gnulib module: fstatat
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8,
  AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14.
  But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe.
  @item
  On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fstatat} may
  not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2
  GB@.  @xref{Large File Support}.
  @item
  On some platforms, @code{fstatat(fd,"file/",buf,flag)} succeeds instead of
  failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
  Solaris 9.
  @item
  For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't
  dereference the argument:
  Solaris 9.
  @item
  On Solaris 11.4, when this function yields a timestamp with a
  nonpositive @code{tv_sec} value, @code{tv_nsec} might be in the range
  @minus{}1000000000..@minus{}1, representing a negative nanoseconds
  offset from @code{tv_sec}.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function does not fail when the second argument is an empty string
  on some platforms, even when @code{AT_EMPTY_PATH} is not used:
  glibc 2.7, Linux 2.6.38.
  @item
  @xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.
  @end itemize
  

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