Accesses information about the specified file.

    Format

      #include  <stat.h>

      int stat  (const char *file_spec, struct stat *buffer);
                (ISO POSIX-1)

      int stat  (const char *file_spec, struct stat *buffer, . . . );
                (DEC C Extension)

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