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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DT_SOCK and S_IFSOCK.
Date:	Sun, 4 May 2008 13:38:43 +0200
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OFYI, here is the "ofending" code:

#ifdef DT_SOCK
    case DT_SOCK: return S_IFSOCK;
#endif
    default:
      return 0;			/* Unknown. */

As can be seen they assume that the existance of DT_SOCK automaticaly implies
the existance of S_IFSOCK.  They not even try to use DTTOIF to translate  DT_SOCK
to S_IFSOCK, so that is not possible to implement an error signaling mechanism in
DTTOIF, if that is possible and wanted at all.  IMHO Iit would be the most
logical approache to remove DT_SOCK from dirent.h if we do not have S_IFSOCK
and, if this does not break something.  It should also be noticed that a consequence
of this is that  DTTOIF returns a useless value for DT_SOCK.
Of course, in this particular case the solution for the findutils code is trivial.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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