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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:38:48 -0700
From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip-1.3.5 uploaded
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:39:16 +0000, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>Hello.
>
>Brian Inglis wrote:
>[snip]
>> I've not yet looked at the other ramifications of doing that, or other
>> requirements of using the 2.04 symlinks. 
>[snip]
>
>What would stat()/fstat() return for a stub file? If you asked for a 
>symlink, but it gave you a stub, then I'd say a stub should stat() as a 
>symlink.

Sneaky, but cool; I like that idea. 
Unless someone else can come up with a good reason why it should still
appear to be an executable binary instead? 
What does file do with stubs and symlinks: treat the former as an
executable and the latter as special file or an indirection? 
I'd think the facilities provided should be consistent in their
opinion of a file.