From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:38:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.
Message-ID: <20070902213856.GB2756@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <200709022228.00733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg, Sun, Sep 02, 2007 22:27:59 +0200:
> söndag 02 september 2007 skrev Marius Storm-Olsen:
> > (Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, it's fine that stat just uses lstat)
> 
> It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx
> 

Except they fscked it up, as usual for microsoft: it 's got a
mandatory argument specifying what the target should be, file or
directory. And they don't tell what happens when the argument is wrong
or the target does not exists. Typical, too.