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Author dstromberg
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Date 2011-04-19.02:11:29
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os.fstat appears to be in the Jython 2.5.2 documentation, but not in the 2.5.2 os module.

os.fstat is important for avoiding symlink races - a security issue.

AFAIK, Java runtimes offer no direct way of accessing the C libray's fstat(), but fstat remains important for about anything that runs as root and accesses files not owned by root.
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