Message-ID:	<35ED6EFA.6017FE67@montana.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 1998 10:14:50 -0600
From:	bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
Reply-To:	bowman AT montana DOT com
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	"djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Midnight Commander and symbolic links
References:	<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980902111335 DOT 517b-100000 AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> S_ISLNK shoud be left undefined, and the source should test for
> #ifdef S_ISLNK.  This *is* the standard method (see, e.g., the sources
> if GNU Fileutils).

I'll talk to the mc maintainer. all the S_ISLNK, lstat, and readlink
code is hardwired. There is an attempt to pick up some SCO variants
during configure, but so far I can't see any attempt to determine if
links are supported, or to make the code in question conditional. 

thanks,
bob

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