problems with translating dpkg

Milos Mandaric milos at manda.com.ba
Sat Dec 13 00:24:45 UTC 2008


U Sub, 13. 12. 2008., u 01:56 +0200, Adi Roiban je napisao/la:
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I know "fstat" is the C function for calling stat on a file
> descriptor
> 
> Can you please point us where have you found this string?
> 
> 
> Try to install "manpages-dev" and look at look at "man fstat"
> 
> Kindest regards,
> Adi
> 
> În data de Vi, 12-12-2008 la 22:42 +0100, Milos Mandaric a scris:
> > U Pet, 12. 12. 2008., u 22:21 +0100, Milos Mandaric je napisao/la:
> > > Hi everyone!
> > > 
> > > Can somebody help me understand what this line means:
> > >   unable to stat current installed conffile `%.250s'
> > > 
> > > I have a lot of lines with "stat, fstat" and similar words. 
> > 
> > One guy at #ubuntu-translators told me that stat is a program. Now i
> > only don't know what fstat means. man stat says:
> > 
> >  -f, --file-system
> >               display file system status instead of file status
> > 
> > is fstat: stat -f?
> > 
> 
> 

Yup, after installing manpages-dev, man fstat gave me a nice explanation
of everything:

 fstat() is identical to stat(), except that the file to be stat-ed is
specified by the file descriptor fd. 

Thnx
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