Date:	Tue, 7 Jul 92 13:30:26 EDT
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	stat("/") fails

>I have found that stat() fails when trying to stat the root directory
>"/".  I have tried the following combinations:

>	stat("/", &buf);
>	stat("/.", &buf);
>	stat("c:/", &buf);

>All of these fail, and set errno to 2 (file not found).  Does anyone
>know why?  Does anyone know how to fix this, or at least a workaround?

Try it with Turbo-C.  I bet it doesn't work there either, since the
root directory isn't really a "file" per se (it doesn't exist in
another directory's file listing).

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
Life is a banana.

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