Difficulties - stat struct

• man 2 stat describes the stat struct (as C code)
• … it shows the field names

  st_dev, st_ino, st_mode, st_nlink, …

• … it shows the field types

  dev_t, ino_t, mode_t, nlink_t, …

• … it's a simplification
• … as it doesn't show padding bytes
• … and some structures—timespec—have several implementations