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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.

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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