Does the same thing as thestat function (including setting the special_ filehandle) but stats a symbolic link instead of the file the symbolic link points to. If symbolic links are unimplemented on your system, a normalstat is done. For much more detailed information, please see the documentation forstat.
If EXPR is omitted, stats$_.
Portability issues:"lstat" in perlport.
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