From: lauras AT softhome DOT net
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:55:32 +0200
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: lauras AT softhome DOT net, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Bug in lstat() - wrong arguments to FSEXT
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:20:14PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This will only work if `path' is on the stack with the other arguments 
> passed to `stat', because the FSEXT hook expects to find the same 
> argument list on its stack when it is called.  `path' satisfies this 
> requirement, because it is `stat's argument.  But `real_path' is a local 
> variable inside `stat' (now `lstat'), so it is further down the stack, 
> far from the struct stat buffer which sits near `path' on the stack.
> 

Oh, thanks for explanation. But I still feel not very confident 
about how should I fix it. Would passing `real_path' itself 
instead of `&real_path' work?

Laurynas