Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:13:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Behavior of stat() changed from NT to Win2000/XP Message-ID: <20030526141311.GK875@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20030526135811 DOT GK4032 AT bitstream DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030526135811.GK4032@bitstream.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:58:11AM -0400, Peter Davis wrote: > On Windows NT, the Cygwin stat function returns a non-zero value in > the st_size field when called on a directory. However, in Windows > 2000 and Windows XP, this same function returns 0 for st_size for a > directory. This change in behavior has broken some features of mutt, > and possible other programs as well. > [...] > Is there some Cygwin setting or configuration option that controls > this? That's Windows, actually. This value is returned for directories by the FindFile routines. Nothing we can do about it. However, if mutt depends on the st_size of a directory, that's a problem in mutt. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/