stat is a system call that returns the "stat" data structure of a file, if possible. cLIeNUX also provides a commandline wrapper, a "bonker", for stat.

The syscall stat
The asm include file stat.h

The cLIeNUX stat command hardly merits a manpage. Just do


	stat /
	stat /COPYING
	stat /dev/null
	stat /dev/fd0
to see what it does. If you strace most programs you will see that stat is a very important syscall.

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Copyright 1999 Richard Allen Hohensee. This seedoc is released for re-distribution only as part of an intact entire cLIeNUX Core.