Problems using stat function

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Ignasi Villagrasa wrote:
>  
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'm migrating an old WATCOM C++ based application to cygwin, using
> -mno-cygwin in order to make the converted executable as similar as
> possible to the original one.
> 
> I get a problem using
> 
> int stat ( const char *__path, struct stat *__sbuf );
> 
> I get an improper offset and so size comes on the st_atime field instead
> of st_size.
> 
> Is there any report or known bug related to this behaviour ?
> 
> It seems library doen't map properly the pointed structure.
> 
> Before going on to dicover what provokes the problem (Library, used
> include), I'd like to know if someone has ever found this behaviour also.

The -mno-cygwin switch means exactly what it says - you're not using
Cygwin.  What you're actually using is a pseudo-cross compiler targeting
Windows APIs (instead of Cygwin's POSIX APIs).  This functionality comes
from <http://mingw.org/>.  You should research your issue there.

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