pkg/system/lstat.go
Ankush Agarwal eea8abd59e Add some documentation to pkg/system
Partially addresses #11581

Signed-off-by: Ankush Agarwal <ankushagarwal11@gmail.com>
2015-03-31 12:00:33 -07:00

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// +build !windows
package system
import (
"syscall"
)
// Lstat takes a path to a file and returns
// a system.Stat_t type pertaining to that file.
//
// Throws an error if the file does not exist
func Lstat(path string) (*Stat_t, error) {
s := &syscall.Stat_t{}
err := syscall.Lstat(path, s)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return fromStatT(s)
}