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Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem

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AHAlan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
Date
May 4, 2010, 07:21 UTC
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On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, that assumption is a gross POSIX violation but we so far haven't seen
> > any platform that matters in real life that assigns the IFMT bits
> > differently.
> 
> Indeed. Just out of interest - Alan, what _is_ the crazy platform that 
> doesn't match what absolutely everybody else has always done?
You don't want to know :-)

But if you really must, it's an Atari platforms running FreeMiNT, but was also essentially Atari's own MultiTOS as well which they adopted from the original MiNT project.

Alan.
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  1. Alan HourihaneMay 1, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  3. Alan HourihaneMay 2, 2010
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 4, 2010
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 4, 2010
  6. Andreas EricssonMay 4, 2010
  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 4, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 4, 2010
  9. Alan HourihaneMay 4, 2010
  10. Alan HourihaneJul 22, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2010
  12. Alan HourihaneJul 25, 2010
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 2, 2010
  14. Alan HourihaneAug 2, 2010
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonAug 2, 2010
  16. Jonathan NiederMay 5, 2010
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