Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 13:24:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Randy Maas <randym AT acm DOT org>
cc: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <k3040e4 AT wildsau DOT idv-edu DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: proposed fsext changes
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Randy Maas wrote:

> Here is a break down of what motivated most of the changes I have proposed:
> 
> Type of ext	libc modification	Notes
> pipe		dup2 (for stdio), lseek	pipe is probably only going to
>					be used by unix-style programs...
> /dev/ttyS	dup2			the most commonly request
>					fsext I've seen.  Mostly for
>					portablity between linux and djgpp 
> symlink	unlink,link		A symlink ala win95 style shortcuts 
> ram-disk,ext2fs link, unlink, lseek

Shouldn't `fstat' also have a hook?