ftw (was Re: Anything faster than stat(S)? ...)

[Mike Van Pelt]

I just had reason to use ftw in a program, and I thought
I'd pass this little tidbit along.  

For some reason, ftw calls stat, which returns information
on the file pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than
information about the link itself.  Sometimes you may want
to do this, but not (as in my case) when you're trying to
produce a report of disk usage.

The solution:  Supply a function stat which calls lstat.
It will be used by ld instead of the system stat.
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