From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:05:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat and fstat implementation based on Win32 API
Message-ID: <86myw2eajl.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709041547240.28586@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>
>> 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 
> ;-)
>
> For some utterly strange reason, "git fetch" accessed "git-fetch" in
> the cwd, not in /bin/...  Funny.

Regardless of what you write in your PATH variable, Windows will
_always_ search for binaries first in your current work directory.  It
is not really funny.

-- 
David Kastrup