libuser -- statting

[Bill Nottingham]

Josep Puigdemont (baldrick at terra.es) said: 
> Hi!
> 
> Working on the translation of libuser I've found this string:
> 
> #: lib/error.c:66
> msgid "error statting file"
> msgstr ""
> 
> I'm not sure what "statting" means.

Almost cetainly it means 'the act of calling stat() on the file'.

> Italian and French translations are more in favor of some call to a
> "stat" function (I don't know what's that, really):

stat is a function used to determine file ownership, size, device number,
and other file metadata.

Bill