Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:43:52 +0300
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Subject: Re: Fw: Two rm.exe issues on XP
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:04:35 +1000
> 
> > > It looks like you may have missed the info in my posting below as rm.exe
> > > from File Utilities 4.1 uses lstat and the change to fstat to produce
> the
> > > inodes is very simple to do for the majority of files as indicated below
> as
> > > well.
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't understand the change you propose.  Can you show a
> > patch or the new code?
> 
> Fist cut at the patch. This may not work for all cases, but it is a very
> simple and small change to the code that fixes up some of the problems with
> fstat.

Sorry, I don't see how would it solve anything.  Didn't you want to
change the code which calls _invent_inode with an empty file name?
This new code still does exactly that?

I guess I misunderstand your diagnosis of the original problem.
Could you please explain what goes wrong and why?