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Re: MiNTlib bugs (well, possible bugs)
Andreas Schwab writes:
> 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.
and then there are some people who say POSIX was only invented so VMS
would follow a standard...
;-)
Juergen
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