Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 14:09:07 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
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Subject: Re: fixpath problem in Novell drives.
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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.