Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 3, 2007, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <86y7fohtmw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070903112110.GE14853@genesis.frugalware.org>

Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:

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> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:07:42AM +0200, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
>> >$ ls -ld x y
>> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me     8 sep  2 23:36 x -> Makefile
>> >-rw-r--r-- 1 me me 32164 sep  2 23:36 y
>
>> And if I understand the documentation correctly, then
>
>> $ mkdir foo && cd foo
>> $ cat ../x
>> x: No such file or directory
>
>> Right?
>
> correct.

Have you tested this, or is this from reading the documentation? In either case: brilliant, but the former would be funnier (depending on one's sense of humor, of course).

-- 
David Kastrup

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