Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/05/06/07:12:17
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tom Demmer wrote:
> Then, I'm said to say that 3.16 doesn't fix this.
> Eli, I'll check out the stat() output for such weird cases, and
> report to you in private mail.
Thanks. But I see it already: this is indeed one of the cases that
`stat' doesn't resolve. It can't be resolved easily, so I would like
your (or anybody else's) feedback as to how grave this problem is, before
I add yet another 4KB-worth of bloat to `stat' ;-).
My hesitation stems primarily from the fact that DOS is probably handling
these two files as residing on two different drives. For example, a
command such as "ren i:foo j:bar" (and the corresponding DOS system call)
will probably fail, since DOS doesn't allow renaming across file systems.
However, if people think that this case is important enough to handle, I
will do that.
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