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> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:09:01 +0100
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> I've just tested it under WinNT4+SP5 with SFN (no LFN TSR) under VMware 3.1
> and the results are weird. _get_sft_entry_ptr in src/libc/posix/fcntl/fcntl.c
> returns some value, but then files are reported as read-only irrespective of
> what mode they were opened with. So it looks like the return value from
> _get_sft_entry_ptr is bogus. Or maybe the SFT it points to is bogus.

There's some code in fstat that verifies the SFT pointer, perhaps you
should use something similar in fcntl.

> The SFT handling code in fstat is pretty different. I wonder if that
> works OK.

AFAIK, it does.