[Info-vax] decc$stat() variants on VMS.

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In article <nl0i81$qov$1 at dont-email.me>, "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net_work> writes:
>Since this is discussed on other threads.
>
> From looking at stat.h, it looks like there are at least 7 different 
>variants of stat() as of VMS 8.4 as Compile time options.
>
>The standard stat() call is probably closest to Unix.  The main thing 
>about the others is that the dev_t returns a pointer to the VMS device 
>name for the file.
>
>The standard stat returns a unique dev_t number for the device. 
>Unfortunately VMS does not provide the routines to parse the dev_t 
>number or translate it to an actual disk device.
>
>Interestingly the non-standard stats() are the easiest way for a C 
>program to get the device name and fid of a file in order to use the 
>FID_TO_NAME service to simulate realpath().
>
>The stat() call only returns the correct byte count for stream files.

The DA asks, "Which stream format?"

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