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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:40:45 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Michael Bukin wrote:

> 2.  There are tests for S_ISLNK and S_ISSOCK and also for S_IFLNK and
> S_IFSOCK.  I recall that it was suggested just to define missing
> symbols if they are not already defined.  Is it correct?  And maybe
> these defines should be added in DJGPP anyway?  I know that there is
> no such functionality, but libc calls just will not return those
> values and it can be used for some tweaking with FSEXT (I'm not sure
> about it).

I think the standard is that systems without symlinks and sockets should
not define S_ISLNK and S_ISSOCK respectively.  Attempts to use these
symbols should be predicated on an appropriate #ifdef.
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Nate Eldredge
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