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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 12:35 MST
From: mat AT ardi DOT com (Mat Hostetter)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: `stat' fails to detect nonexistent files under WinNT
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

    Eli> To test the above, you might take stat.c from the library
    Eli> sources and compile it with -DTEST.  It will produce an
    Eli> executable test program which you should invoke thusly:

    Eli> 	stat 0 file ...

    Eli> (0 is the value of the bit-mapped variable `_djstat_flags'
    Eli> that controls the behavior of `stat'; it is documented in the
    Eli> library on-line docs).  The program will then stat each of
    Eli> the files from the command line and print (most of) the
    Eli> contents of `struct stat', together with a human-readable
    Eli> description of the bits set in `_djstat_fail_bits'.  Please
    Eli> post the info so that I could isolate the problem (I don't
    Eli> have access to a WinNT machine).

Here you go.  This is from WinNT 3.51.  Neither badfile nor
reallylongfilename.will.fail exist.

C:\tmp>stat 0 badfile reallylongfilename.will.fail
DOS 5.0 (Microsoft MS-DOS)
badfile: 2      1 50444 1 42 0 312768000 Fri Nov 30 00:00:00 1979
Everything checks out OK
reallylongfilename.will.fail: lossage : No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Get TrueName call (INT 21h/AX=6000h) failed

Could this all be explained by Kenji Masaki's idea:

    I use WinNT 3.51 on NTFS , and gets same result. It seems that
    WinNT dose not support undocumented DOS call int 21h ax=6000h .

-Mat