From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:57:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Define a version of lstat(2) with posix semantics
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903191155300.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0903190327l7745bf01i479fb84fae777af0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Alex Riesen wrote:

> So that Cygwin port can continue work around its supporting
> library and get access to its faked file attributes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---

[patch not inlined: therefore you'll have to guess what I am referring to]

It seems quite wrong to define something for other platforms when only 
Cygwin is affected.

I'd rather just disable WIN32_STAT for Cygwin, because otherwise, we will 
keep running into issues.

Ciao,
Dscho