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Program a basic version of the "stat" command on linux, details are in the file

Question must be answered in a .c file, following the POSIX
norm, with a Makefile that contains these lines :

CC      = gcc
CFLAGS  = -Wall -Wextra
CFLAGS += -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
CFLAGS += -g

Question:

Implement a basic version of the stat command, taking only one argument : the file.
Your code must use same  dedicated system call that the stat command uses to get the metadata it displays.
Check the possibles errors and display the
informations in the simplest way possible.
It must display the type of the file, the access in a octal of 4 numbers (exemple "0664"), the login and the number of the group, you will use for that
the getpwuid and the getgrgid functions.