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On 01/11/2011 02:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I can not reproduce the effect, at least not on W7, but apparently it
> happens on some systems.  So, given that the directory size is
> irrelevant for all practical purposes anyway, and given that there's no
> application which has problems with a directory size of 0, should Cygwin
> just always set st_size to 0 for directories?  Independent of the
> underlying FS?

Always returning 0 size for all directories, regardless of FS, is
certainly the simplest workaround.  I'd say go for it.

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