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Re: src/winsup/cinstall ChangeLog download.cc
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- Subject: Re: src/winsup/cinstall ChangeLog download.cc
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:55:53 +0100
- References: <20010219180219.3323.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com> <3A916118.A043FFBD@yahoo.com>
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:08:24PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> corinna@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
> >
> > CVSROOT: /cvs/src
> > Module name: src
> > Changes by: corinna@sources.redhat.com 2001-02-19 10:02:19
> >
> > Modified files:
> > winsup/cinstall: ChangeLog download.cc
> >
> > Log message:
> > * download.cc (get_file_size): New function. Eliminates the need
> > to call `stat'.
> > (download_one): Call `get_file_size' instead of `stat'. This
> > workarounds a problem with mingw's `stat' call.
> >
>
> Corinna,
>
> Can you please elaborate on the problem with MinGW's `stat' call?
I haven't investigated the problem in mingw. I only saw that
mingw's stat returns the wrong size in st_size. I needed a quick
solution so I decided to create a solution without using stat
instead of debugging.
Corinna
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