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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108202115.AA18011@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Fseek on STDIN problem on Win 2K
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:15:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <9743-Tue21Aug2001000751+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 21, 2001 12:07:53 AM
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> If the device is not returned correctly, fstat will lie about st_dev,
> and we could have different files that will look identical.

But right now this is only for files on A: and/or redirected handles,
which is pretty rare that we fstat() and compare on those strange
combinations.  Not impossible, but much less a problem than seek
not working.

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