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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 2, 2007, 21:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709022133190.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200709022228.00733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> s?ndag 02 september 2007 skrev Marius Storm-Olsen:
> > (Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, it's fine that stat just uses lstat)
> 
> It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx

Oh? *goes and tries to create one on a USB stick* No. Besides, IIRC you cannot even create symlinks to another partition. Copying a symlink will copy the _linked_ file. So to call this "symlink" is a little... uhm... preposterous.

Plus, on a page linked from the link you posted, it says that it is only supported from Vista onwards. So you must be kidding me.

Ciao, Dscho