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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 09:28:57 -0600 (CST)
> 
> We should track down which call isn't behaving properly and see if
> we can fix it in the libc first.

Yes, I agree.

The two methods used by lstat to detect devices are a bit in
attribute byte returned by findfirst and the special form in which
_truename returns the normalized string for devices.  IIRC, you've
found that none of them is emulated correctly by W2K under LFN.

What we need is some system call--any system call--that can
distinguish between files and devices.

If worse comes to worst, I suppose we could teach lstat a few standard
device names--ugly as heck, but having Autoconf fail is uglier...

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