fs.Stat is called when fs.Lstat should be called

[DUOLabs333]

When calling ls on a file in a mounted directory, files that are symlinks show up as their underlying files. This is because ls corresponds to a Lstat call (which doesn't follow symlinks), while the NFS server calls Stat.

[willscott]

• This NFS library calls fs.ReadDir
• The examples in this repo use the billy osfs implementation of a backing filesystem, which will translate that into os.ReadDir
• There are some OS complexities in the core golang implementation, but that does generally translate into an underlying lstat call.

[DUOLabs333]

Sorry, I meant when doing something like ls -alh foo.txt.

[willscott]

sure.

• the NFS protocol does not itself have a direct stat or lstat primitive.
• the call on the client will be most likely translated to an NFS ReadDirPlus RPC call.

[DUOLabs333]

Oh, so lstat and stat gets converted to the same call?

[willscott]

i believe that's correct