What is lstat() alternative in windows?
c, stat
Solution
GetFileAttributes or GetFileAttributesEx probably (if I understood `stat` and `lstat` right). Quoting from the docs:
Symbolic link behavior—If the path points to a symbolic link, the function returns attributes for the symbolic link.
Problem
In linux, when `stat()` is used with broken link files, it fails with `-1`. So I used `lstat()` which succeeded. For the same case in windows, `_stat()` fails with broken shortcuts, but there is no `_lstat()` in windows. Please help to find the alternative for `lstat()` in windows.