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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:06:28 -0700
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Function stat bug when dealing with symlinks.
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According to Pedro Izecksohn on 2/7/2008 9:01 PM:
|   struct stat member st_mode is wrongly being set by the stat function to
| regular file instead of to symlink.

Huh?  stat is SUPPOSED to dereference symlinks.  Use lstat if you want
st_mode to report on a symlink, rather than following it.  And this is not
cygwin-specific.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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