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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 23:38:56 +0200
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Robin Rosenberg, Sun, Sep 02, 2007 22:27:59 +0200:
> s=F6ndag 02 september 2007 skrev Marius Storm-Olsen:
> > (Also, since Windows doesn't really handle symlinks, it's fine that=
 stat just uses lstat)
>=20
> It does now: See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866.as=
px
>=20

Except they fscked it up, as usual for microsoft: it 's got a
mandatory argument specifying what the target should be, file or
directory. And they don't tell what happens when the argument is wrong
or the target does not exists. Typical, too.