The lstat_file function behaves identically to stat_file
but if file is a symbolic link, lstat_file returns
information about the link itself, and not the file that it
references.
See the documentation for stat_file for more information.
On systems that do not support symbolic links, there is no
difference between this function and the stat_file function.
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