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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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