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Re: Behavior of stat() changed from NT to Win2000/XP
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:13:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: Behavior of stat() changed from NT to Win2000/XP
- References: <20030526135811.GK4032@bitstream.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:58:11AM -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
> On Windows NT, the Cygwin stat function returns a non-zero value in
> the st_size field when called on a directory. However, in Windows
> 2000 and Windows XP, this same function returns 0 for st_size for a
> directory. This change in behavior has broken some features of mutt,
> and possible other programs as well.
> [...]
> Is there some Cygwin setting or configuration option that controls
> this?
That's Windows, actually. This value is returned for directories
by the FindFile routines. Nothing we can do about it. However, if
mutt depends on the st_size of a directory, that's a problem in mutt.
Corinna
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