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@@ -1225,6 +1225,9 @@ not exist" is signified by the C<st_nlink> field being zero (which is otherwise always forced to be at least one) and all the other fields of the stat buffer having unspecified contents. +The path I<should> be absolute and I<must not> end in a slash. If it is +relative and your working directory changes, the behaviour is undefined. + Since there is no standard to do this, the portable implementation simply calls C<stat (2)> regularly on the path to see if it changed somehow. You can specify a recommended polling interval for this case. If you specify |