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Re: lstat symbolic link size
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:06:11 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: lstat symbolic link size
- References: <20040106013026.21604.qmail@linuxmail.org> <20040106013824.GA6047@redhat.com><20040106014410.GA6850@redhat.com> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401071123210.23399@eos><20040107181159.GC14105@redhat.com>
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:33:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
> >Ok, here it is.
> >
> >2004-01-07 Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>
> >
> > * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_helper): Comply with
> > SUSv3 for a symlink's st_size, ie. the length of the target
> > pathname.
> >
> Thanks but that is not the correct fix. The target pathname is not the
> windows path.
>
Ok, sorry for the noise. I was trying to use readlink as my example and
that was what it appeared to do :).
I'll just wait until you have time to fix CVS HEAD so I can test and
debug. Then, I'll try it again.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
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