From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:21:36 GMT
Subject: Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem
Message-ID: <1272957697.13488.1319.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005032035310.5478@i5.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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.