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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:39:53 +1000
> 
> > The st_dev stuff comes from fstat, so the key for the problem is
> > there.
> >
> > I think this happens because, as Charles reported earlier,
> > _get_dev_info always returns zero for LFN handles, so all files look
> > as if they were on drive A:.
> >
> > If I'm right, setting LFN=n should cure this problem (of course, this
> > is not the solution I propose for the library, just something to test).
> No the solution that I found worked was to change the stat() calls to
> fstat() calls and the code in link.c then works.

We need to have fstat working anyway, so I'd rather try to fix fstat
before trying local fixes in link.