libuser -- statting

[Alan Cox]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:37:36PM +0100, Josep Puigdemont wrote:
> 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. First I supposed it was a typo, a
> misspelling of "starting" (for the proximity of "t" and "r" on the
> keyboard), but then I checked for other translations that I [barely]
> understand and here is the result:

It is just bad English

stat() is a SuS function for querying the status of the file. See
man 2 stat.