X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Problem with stat Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:14:45 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <46808EA8.2030202@pacific.net.sg> <4680DD73.8090300@sh.cvut.cz> <4680E3A0.3020508@pacific.net.sg> <4680FE40.7010102@byu.net> <46810D24.9000303@pacific.net.sg> <46810FAA.5050508@byu.net> <86zm2mdfox.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <468112F2.10802@byu.net> <86vedade9q.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86ps3irapu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070509 Thunderbird/1.5.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <86ps3irapu.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com David Kastrup wrote: > Eric Blake writes: PCYMTNQREAIYR ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> "If the named file is a symbolic link, the stat() function shall >> continue pathname resolution using the contents of the symbolic >> link, and shall return information pertaining to the resulting file >> if the file exists." > > This says nothing about what is returned if the file does not exist. RETURN VALUE Upon successful completion, 0 shall be returned. Otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error. ERRORS The stat() function shall fail if: ... [ENOENT] A component of path does not name an existing file or path is an empty string. What part of the above don't you understand? -- Matthew "...anyway, that's my 0.02 toasters" (with apologies to Niel) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/