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+/* Work around a bug of lstat on some systems
+
+   Copyright (C) 1997-2006, 2008-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
+   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
+   License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* written by Jim Meyering */
+
+/* If the user's config.h happens to include <sys/stat.h>, let it include only
+   the system's <sys/stat.h> here, so that orig_lstat doesn't recurse to
+   rpl_lstat.  */
+#define __need_system_sys_stat_h
+#include <config.h>
+
+#if !HAVE_LSTAT
+/* On systems that lack symlinks, our replacement <sys/stat.h> already
+   defined lstat as stat, so there is nothing further to do other than
+   avoid an empty file.  */
+typedef int dummy;
+#else /* HAVE_LSTAT */
+
+/* Get the original definition of lstat.  It might be defined as a macro.  */
+# include <sys/types.h>
+# include <sys/stat.h>
+# undef __need_system_sys_stat_h
+
+static int
+orig_lstat (const char *filename, struct stat *buf)
+{
+  return lstat (filename, buf);
+}
+
+/* Specification.  */
+# include <sys/stat.h>
+
+# include "stat-time.h"
+
+# include <string.h>
+# include <errno.h>
+
+/* lstat works differently on Linux and Solaris systems.  POSIX (see
+   "pathname resolution" in the glossary) requires that programs like
+   'ls' take into consideration the fact that FILE has a trailing slash
+   when FILE is a symbolic link.  On Linux and Solaris 10 systems, the
+   lstat function already has the desired semantics (in treating
+   'lstat ("symlink/", sbuf)' just like 'lstat ("symlink/.", sbuf)',
+   but on Solaris 9 and earlier it does not.
+
+   If FILE has a trailing slash and specifies a symbolic link,
+   then use stat() to get more info on the referent of FILE.
+   If the referent is a non-directory, then set errno to ENOTDIR
+   and return -1.  Otherwise, return stat's result.  */
+
+int
+rpl_lstat (const char *file, struct stat *sbuf)
+{
+  int result = orig_lstat (file, sbuf);
+
+  /* This replacement file can blindly check against '/' rather than
+     using the ISSLASH macro, because all platforms with '\\' either
+     lack symlinks (mingw) or have working lstat (cygwin) and thus do
+     not compile this file.  0 len should have already been filtered
+     out above, with a failure return of ENOENT.  */
+  if (result == 0)
+    {
+      if (S_ISDIR (sbuf->st_mode) || file[strlen (file) - 1] != '/')
+        result = stat_time_normalize (result, sbuf);
+      else
+        {
+          /* At this point, a trailing slash is permitted only on
+             symlink-to-dir; but it should have found information on the
+             directory, not the symlink.  Call 'stat' to get info about the
+             link's referent.  Our replacement stat guarantees valid results,
+             even if the symlink is not pointing to a directory.  */
+          if (!S_ISLNK (sbuf->st_mode))
+            {
+              errno = ENOTDIR;
+              return -1;
+            }
+          result = stat (file, sbuf);
+        }
+    }
+  return result;
+}
+
+#endif /* HAVE_LSTAT */