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Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:25:11 +0000
From:	Douglas Rupp <rupp AT gnat DOT com>
Organization:	Ada Core Technologies
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: fstat returns garbage
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You will have to debug this a bit more, sorry.  I can understand weird
> things happening with st_mode, since `fstat' does some trickery to get at
> the attribute bits, but zero st_size?  That just seems impossible, since
> `fstat' simply calls `filelength' (which is just a call to DOS seek
> functions in disguise) to get the file size, so I fail to see how that
> could fail.  Can you step into `fstat' code, or put some debugging
> printf's there, and see what exactly happens in these cases?  Thanks.
> 

Filelength is returning the right size, but since the "is device" flag
bit is set, it never makes it into the st_size field.  Just putting the
size into the st_size field won't fix it though, because my code checks
to see if it's a regular file before returning the size.

I'm guessing that the field from which fstat determines if the handle is
a device or not has been changed on NT.

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