On 26 Apr 2012, Roland McGrath verbalised:
fileinfoat() perhaps? I think stat*at() is better, though, as people are used to the stat function family.
Names like that were all I had thought of when I said I hadn't thought of any good ones. ;-)
Quite. It's a garden-path function name. "What's a foat and why would I want to put a file in one?"