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Re: lstat() and implied .exe extension
- To: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer at sanwaint dot com>
- Subject: Re: lstat() and implied .exe extension
- From: "'Chris Faylor'" <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:32:21 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:30:40PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>
>Chris,
>
>Your fix goes a little too far. Now lstat() doesn't seem
>to respect SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW and behaves just like stat().
Actually, it looks like I broke this sometime ago.
Anyway, I've reworked some of the interplay between symlink_check_one
and path_conv. It seems to work now but I'm always nervous when I
make a change to such a low level function.
cgf