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+/* Tests of stat.
+   Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* Written by Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>, 2009.  */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "pathmax.h"
+#include "same-inode.h"
+
+#define ASSERT(expr) \
+  do                                                                         \
+    {                                                                        \
+      if (!(expr))                                                           \
+	{                                                                    \
+	  fprintf (stderr, "%s:%d: assertion failed\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);  \
+	  fflush (stderr);                                                   \
+	  abort ();                                                          \
+	}                                                                    \
+    }                                                                        \
+  while (0)
+
+#define BASE "test-stat.t"
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+  struct stat st1;
+  struct stat st2;
+  char cwd[PATH_MAX];
+
+  ASSERT (getcwd (cwd, PATH_MAX) == cwd);
+  ASSERT (stat (".", &st1) == 0);
+  ASSERT (stat ("./", &st2) == 0);
+  ASSERT (SAME_INODE (st1, st2));
+  ASSERT (stat (cwd, &st2) == 0);
+  ASSERT (SAME_INODE (st1, st2));
+  ASSERT (stat ("/", &st1) == 0);
+  ASSERT (stat ("///", &st2) == 0);
+  ASSERT (SAME_INODE (st1, st2));
+
+  errno = 0;
+  ASSERT (stat ("", &st1) == -1);
+  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
+  errno = 0;
+  ASSERT (stat ("nosuch", &st1) == -1);
+  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
+  errno = 0;
+  ASSERT (stat ("nosuch/", &st1) == -1);
+  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
+
+  ASSERT (close (creat (BASE "file", 0600)) == 0);
+  ASSERT (stat (BASE "file", &st1) == 0);
+  errno = 0;
+  ASSERT (stat (BASE "file/", &st1) == -1);
+  ASSERT (errno == ENOTDIR);
+  ASSERT (unlink (BASE "file") == 0);
+
+  return 0;
+}