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Date: | Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:38:48 -0700 |
From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> |
Subject: | Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip-1.3.5 uploaded |
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:39:16 +0000, Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk> wrote: >Hello. > >Brian Inglis wrote: >[snip] >> I've not yet looked at the other ramifications of doing that, or other >> requirements of using the 2.04 symlinks. >[snip] > >What would stat()/fstat() return for a stub file? If you asked for a >symlink, but it gave you a stub, then I'd say a stub should stat() as a >symlink. Sneaky, but cool; I like that idea. Unless someone else can come up with a good reason why it should still appear to be an executable binary instead? What does file do with stubs and symlinks: treat the former as an executable and the latter as special file or an indirection? I'd think the facilities provided should be consistent in their opinion of a file.
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