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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 20:43:20 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: bowman AT montana DOT com
CC: "djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Midnight Commander and symbolic links
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bowman wrote:
 
> the question: the area I had to patch extensively deal with S_ISLNK,
> lstat, readlink, and other things that would be declared in
> jgpp/include/sys/stat.h, if links were supported.
> 
> Other than the quick and dirty copy that link() uses, and the juggling
> of startup code to produce a symbolic link, is there any uniform way of
> handling gnu code that presupposes a linkable file system?
> 
> Most of the code involved performs a test for a linked file, so I've
> taken the temporary method of having the S_ISLNK macro evaluate to false
> etc., but if there is a standard method, i'd prefer to use it.

I think the standard method is to wrap all symlink-related code in
`#ifdef S_ISLNK', because a system without symlinks does not define that
macro.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com