From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108201715.AA14974@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Fseek on STDIN problem on Win 2K
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:15:43 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9003-Mon20Aug2001190227+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 20, 2001 07:02:27 PM
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> I understood that that other LFN usage was also commented out.

Something doing LFN was still active or lfn=n would not make a 
difference.  I would hate to think the open of the environment
file would change a different handle.

> I'm not sure: if you comment out _is_executable, you don't read the
> file, but you still lseek (because fstat does that elsewhere in its
> code, when it calls __filelength).  So the read-before-lseek
> hypothesis should explain why seeking in __filelength works, while
> seeking in _is_executable doesn't.

Something must have also changed between 2.03 and cvs, since 2.03
works with lfn=y also.