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The contract for the stat() and lstat() function is: > stat(): stats the file pointed to by path and fills in buf. > lstat(): is identical to stat(), except that if path is a symbolic link, > then the link itself is stat-ed, not the file that it refers to. stat() should always return the statistics of the file or directory a symbolic link is pointing to. The lstat() function is used to get the stats for the symlink. Hence the check should not be there. Signed-off-by: Loris Chiocca <loris@chiocca.ch>