Perform a stat system call on the given path, without following symbolic links.
Like stat(), but do not follow symbolic links.
Equivalent to stat(path, follow_symlinks=False).
3.2: Added support for Windows 6.0 (Vista) symbolic links.
3.3: Added the dir_fd parameter.
3.6: Accepts a path-like object.
3.8: On Windows, now opens reparse points that represent another path (name surrogates), including symbolic links and directory junctions. Other kinds of reparse points are resolved by the operating system as for stat().