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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 10:14:50 -0600
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Midnight Commander and symbolic links
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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