From:	stockton AT bcm DOT tmc DOT edu (David Stockton)
Message-Id:	<199704072228.RAA05085@ginger.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu>
Subject:	lstat(), S_ISLNK() and S_ISSOCK()
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP Mail List)
Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 1997 17:28:52 -0500 (CDT)
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In porting some software recently I noticed that several defines
and a library function were missing from the djgpp version 2 release.
These have to do with things that are currently not available through
DOS or DJGPP so could be implemented appropriately.

lstat()		- Since there are no symbolic links.  Would just return
		  the same thing as stat() (in fact could be a define in
		  <sys/stat.h> of "#define lstat(f,sp) stat(f,sp)")
	
S_ISLNK(mode) 	- Should return true if 'mode' is of a symbolic link.
		  Since these do not exist, should always return 0.
		  This should be in <sys/stat.h> and could be only
		  as "#define S_ISLNK(m) 0".

S_ISSOCK(mode)	- Should return true if 'mode' is of a socket.
		  Same as above.
						- David

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