Re: Implementing stat() with FindFirstFile()

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 30, 2009, 05:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20090330051118.GA2681@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903300245080.6454@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On 2009.03.30 02:52:47 +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Magnus Bäck wrote:
> > On Friday, March 27, 2009 at 03:25 CET,
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Magnus Bäck wrote:
> > > > I'd be very surprised if ZwQueryDirectoryFile() hasn't always been
> > > > around (I just verified ntdll.dll from NT 4.0), so that's not a
> > > > worry. Don't know why MSDN reports it as introduced in XP.
> > >
> > > As the current maintainer of msysGit, I refuse to have something in
> > > the installer I ship that relies on not-at-all guaranteed interfaces.
> > 
> > Although I do appreciate the importance of guaranteed interfaces,
> > I am also pragmatic. An incompatible change in ntdll.dll would break
> > vast amounts of programs, including cygwin. There is a lot to be said
> > about Microsoft and their APIs, but I don't think they have a habit of
> > changing ABIs or function semantics for userland libraries that have
> > been around for 15 years.
> 
> Had you pointed to some document that states that the function has been in 
> all NT-based versions, that would have done the trick.

Not official documentation, but at least from some MS guy it seems: http://www.osronline.com/showThread.cfm?link=73086 (last message).

Apparently, it was in NT3.x, but they document only what's actually defined in the header.

Björn, feeling weird for trying to help with some Windows issue...