A wrapper for the POSIX stat() function. The stat() function
returns information about a file. On Windows the stat() function in
the C library checks only the FAT-style READONLY attribute and does
not look at the ACL at all. Thus on Windows the protection bits in
the st_mode field are a fabrication of little use.
On Windows the Microsoft C libraries have several variants of the
stat struct and stat() function with names like _stat(), _stat32(),
_stat32i64() and _stat64i32(). The one used here is for 32-bit code
the one with 32-bit size and time fields, specifically called _stat32().
In Microsoft's compiler, by default struct stat means one with
64-bit time fields while in MinGW struct stat is the legacy one
with 32-bit fields. To hopefully clear up this messs, the gstdio.h
header defines a type GLib.StatBuf which is the appropriate struct type
depending on the platform and/or compiler being used. On POSIX it
is just struct stat, but note that even on POSIX platforms, stat()
might be a macro.
See your C library manual for more details about stat().
Parameters
filename: string
a pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows)
A wrapper for the POSIX
stat()function. Thestat()function returns information about a file. On Windows thestat()function in the C library checks only the FAT-style READONLY attribute and does not look at the ACL at all. Thus on Windows the protection bits in thest_modefield are a fabrication of little use.On Windows the Microsoft C libraries have several variants of the stat struct and
stat()function with names like _stat(), _stat32(), _stat32i64() and _stat64i32(). The one used here is for 32-bit code the one with 32-bit size and time fields, specifically called _stat32().In Microsoft's compiler, by default struct stat means one with 64-bit time fields while in MinGW struct stat is the legacy one with 32-bit fields. To hopefully clear up this messs, the gstdio.h header defines a type GLib.StatBuf which is the appropriate struct type depending on the platform and/or compiler being used. On POSIX it is just struct stat, but note that even on POSIX platforms,
stat()might be a macro.See your C library manual for more details about
stat().