From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too. Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:36:08 +0200 Message-ID: <85ir6n7zjb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <46DACD93.9000509@trolltech.com> <200709022228.00733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <200709022342.42733.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <46DBB2BE.8030505@eudaptics.com> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20<20070903112110.?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?GE148=0453@genesis?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?.fruga?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?lware.org>?= <86y7fohtmw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <20070905160206.GY14853@genesis.frugalware.org> <85abs1hr6t.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20070906162657.GF2329@genesis.frugalware.org> <85bqcfbvpe.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <46E08DE9.4060701@11011.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Stockwell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 07 08:36:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITXRy-0003X2-9e for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:36:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932473AbXIGGgN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:36:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932441AbXIGGgN (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:36:13 -0400 Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]:38935 "EHLO mail-in-06.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932342AbXIGGgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 02:36:12 -0400 Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D4131E7AE; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:36:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7212D3788; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:36:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-044-151.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.44.151]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F991BF3D9; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:36:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E2E241CAD71B; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:36:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <46E08DE9.4060701@11011.net> (Douglas Stockwell's message of "Fri\, 07 Sep 2007 08\:31\:53 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4175/Thu Sep 6 22:16:54 2007 on mail-in-04.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Douglas Stockwell writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> If anybody is as fortunate as to actually have Vista available, it >> would be nice if he corroborated that relative links under Vista are >> indeed (as Microsoft appears to claim) relative with regard to the >> current work directory rather than the directory containing the link. > > I believe the wording "resolves the path relative to the current > directory" actually refers to the creation of links, not to their use. > > C:\stest>ver > > Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000] [Examples] Good. So we will ultimately be able to support symlinks on some Windows versions. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum