From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject: Re: stat and character devices
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:28:19 +0000 (UTC)
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

>> From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
>> I noticed that stat treats some character devices differently, depending
>> on whether it is run in a DOS box under Win98 or in plain DOS. The COM
>> series (com1, com2, etc.) shows as a character device when run under
>> plain DOS, but not in the DOS box under Win98.

>You didn't show the results of running this program on Windows 98.
>Here are mine:

>    The value of base is com1
>    The value of st_dev is -1.
>    The value of st_mode is 8612.
>    The file is a character device.

I those values under plain DOS. Under Win98(second edition), I get:

    The value of base is com1
    The value of st_dev is 0.
    The value of st_mode is 0.
    The file is not a character device.

If this has been fixed under 2.04, I don't think anything more has to be
done. I'll try to get the 2.04 libc.a and retest.

                             Doug
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