Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.

söndag 02 september 2007 skrev Alex Riesen:

Robin Rosenberg, Sun, Sep 02, 2007 22:27:59 +0200:

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söndag 02 september 2007 skrev Marius Storm-Olsen:

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(Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, it's fine that stat just uses lstat)

It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.aspx

Except they fscked it up, as usual for microsoft: it 's got a
mandatory argument specifying what the target should be, file or
directory. And they don't tell what happens when the argument is wrong
or the target does not exists. Typical, too.

Why would this API be an exception?

-- robin