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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Link function query
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:06:35 +1000
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> > My question is in link.s shouldn't we either use stat() or fstat() not
both?
> > Stat calls lstat() and the lstat file
> >
> > If I move the open path1 and use the fd1 and change the code to use
fstat
> > then the function almost works. Once I use fstat() I then find that the
> > newely created file has the read only bit set, I am currently looking at
> > this issue. I may be able to produce a patch very quickly once I know
the
> > answer to the stat() or fstat() question above.
>
> What is the problem with `stat' here?

The problem appears to be with the st_dev info. I need to check all the rest
of the info to see if there are any other differences.

Let me re-phrase my question:
    Should I be able to compare the results from stat() against fstart()? If
yes then I need to look at this and fix stat() and/or fstat() it instead of
changing the code in link.c