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Re: MiNTlib bugs (well, possible bugs)

To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
Subject: Re: MiNTlib bugs (well, possible bugs)
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 15:30:05 +0100
In-reply-to: <9401171305.af12262@ncrhub1.NCR.COM> (message from Chris Herborth on Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:54:58 -0500 (EST))
Reply-to: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com> writes:

|>> in fact, the current posix standard does not even define
|>> S_ISLNK() (but i think posix-92 was supposed to approve it).
 
|> Yipes!  Doesn't the POSIX filesystem have symlinks?  I guess they forgot
|> the handy macro...

POSIX is a *minimal* specification, and there are some (not
necessarily old) Unix filesystems that don't support symlinks.

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Andreas Schwab                                  "And now for something
schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de            completely different"

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