From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10108262026.AA03204@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: fstat patch for redirected char handles (NT/W2K/XP)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:26:12 -0500 (CDT)
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> > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> > Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:14:15 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > Since this fixes patch, and works well with less, any reason not to commit
> > the following?
> 
> Could we please make sure that other callers of filelength and
> lfilelength also work after this change?  I see they are called in
> _irdlink.c, fcntl.c, and _write.c.
> 
> I'd hate to fix one problem only to introduce another (not that I
> expect this change to have such an effect).

I'll do some checking.  But what this patch essentially does is say
for handle 0 under NT, don't use the LFN code, use seeks like we did
under 2.03.