Re: new platform & S_IFGITLINK problem

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

I've actually wanted to have a 'git_lstat()' wrapper for other reasons: it 
would have made it _so_ much easier to do breakpoints etc when doing the 
whole name lookup optimizations. 

Yes, I would imagine that canonicalized utf-8, windows codepages and other
screw-ups can be dealt with easier with such a wrapper as well.