On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:33:36PM -0700, John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> Mmm thought/hope someone was rewriting, reviewing the file/steam  
> classes, like the socket stuff.
> Is stat() exist across  *all* unix or unix like or clib supported  
> systems?

The stat() and fstat() calls go way back, and would be available on
any unix system.  Both calls are documented in "The UNIX System",
by S. R. Bourne, 1983 (an older book that happens to be readily at
hand).

According to a recent Debian Linux man page:
The  stat  and  fstat  calls conform to SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN,
BSD 4.3.  The lstat call conforms  to  4.3BSD  and SVr4.

Dave