Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:55:49 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> Just to give you hope, out of the zip "touch" works with LFNs on XP RC1.
> So they occasionally fix some things :-)

Sorry, I don't understand: what is this ``out of the zip "touch"''?
Do you mean that you reported the bug and it already got corrected? ;-)

Btw, if XP behaves differently from W2K, we will need a way to
distinguish between them.  Right now, it's not possible, AFAIK,
without some heavy and dangerous processing that is inappropriate for
libc.a.

> Bad news: _get_dev_info() always returns 0 on LFN handles, character or
> file.

So the IOCTL interface is botched as well.  Sigh...

This probably means that the only practical way is to go through SFN
open/create functions.  Otherwise, we will find out that things begin
to fall apart all over the place, since IOCTL is used in many library
functions.