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Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 4, 2010, 15:29 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> I've actually wanted to have a 'git_lstat()' wrapper for other reasons: it 
> would have made it _so_ much easier to do breakpoints etc when doing the 
> whole name lookup optimizations.

Yes, I would imagine that canonicalized utf-8, windows codepages and other screw-ups can be dealt with easier with such a wrapper as well.

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