Re: [MiNT] symlinks and hostfs

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Thanks for your efforts, Alan.

But I'm still a bit annoyed...

> int32 HostFs::host_stat64( XfsCookie *fc, const char *fpathName,
> struct stat *statBuf ) {

Basically you changed the behaviour of that function from stat() to
lstat(), according to its name it may not be a good thing, because it is
certainly called from other places.

What really annoys me is the following:

> The implementation of Fxattr() is here inside sys_f_xattr():
> http://sparemint.atariforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/freemint/sys/dosdir.c?rev=1.27.2.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup 
>
> And unfortunately the parameter "flag" set to 1 indicating that the
> attributes of the symlink itself should be read is ignored :-(

That parameter "flag" indicates if sys_f_xattr() should behave as stat()
or lstat(), but it is ignored inside the function... so ARAnyM is always
asked to do a stat(), and it does it well.

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Vincent Rivière