lstat
Returns file metadata without following symbolic links.
Identical to stat except that if the target is a symbolic link,
lstat returns information about the link itself rather than the
file it points to. Uses std::fs::symlink_metadata. Returns the
same 13-element list as stat, or an empty list on failure.
Synopsis
my @s = lstat($symlink);
my ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size,
$atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = lstat($path);
lstat _; # reuse last stat buffer