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Date: | Wed, 12 May 1999 10:03:11 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca> |
cc: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: realpath() |
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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alain Magloire wrote: > > It should be easy to add a simple wrapper around _fixpath. Volunteers > > are welcome : > > Here is a crude workaround. Thanks. > if (stat(file_name, &stbuf) != 0) > return 0; `stat' is too expensive for this. Use `__file_exist' or `access' instead. (I think `access' is a better alternative for Unix-compatibility functions, since it doesn't fail for root directories and devices.)
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