From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:34:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] mingw: don't call `GetFileAttributes()` twice in `mingw_lstat()`
Message-ID: <44db571b-4fb1-43da-a7c2-eb7cc15048ab@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <dae450dd0e995b26d0140cf3753d103f5470f44d.1765980535.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Am 17.12.25 um 15:08 schrieb Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget:
> From: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
> 
> The Win32 API function `GetFileAttributes()` cannot handle paths with
> trailing dir separators. The current `mingw_stat()`/`mingw_lstat()`
> implementation calls `GetFileAttributes()` twice if the path has
> trailing slashes (first with the original path that was passed as
> function parameter, and and a second time with a path copy with trailing
> '/' removed).
A comment above do_lstat() mentions this procedure. This patch doesn't
change the comment, but it should.

-- Hannes