Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> Bad news.  I do not know if it was the newest version I tried,
>>> but I could no longer fetch... said something about some bad
>>> file.
>> Then you're missing this patch: 
>> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/4msysgit.git?a=commitdiff;h=f15974add93bdfa92775c77c00e7c65aefd42127
>> 
>> I guess the quickest way is to manually apply this patch and
>> recompile. (or add the '#undef fstat', and have git_fstat just
>> 'return fstat(fd, buf)')
>> 
>> The problem is that without this patch fstat(0, buf) would fail
>> with bad filedescriptor instead of returning the st_mode = S_IFIFO.
> 
> I guessed as much, but could not fetch the patch, since fetch was
> broken ;-)