possible bug in stat() -- not working with special characters on 64 bit systems

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 25 07:06, Leon Vanderploeg wrote:
> I have been fighting a problem with a compiled C program and seem to have
> narrowed it down.  When file names contain special characters such as the n
> with the tilde above it (ñ), stat() works fine on 32 bit machines, but fails
> on 64 bit machines (both windows 7 and server 2008 R2).  
> 
> At the end of the this email is source code of a small test program to
> demonstrate the issue.  Of course, the C:\ directory must contain the
> Mañana.doc and Manana.doc files.  I can provide a compiled version if
> needed.  The program is compiled on Cygwin version 1.5.25, GCC version
> 3.4.4.

Please update to Cygwin 1.7.  Cygwin 1.5.25 is not supported anymore,
abd had no internationalization capabilities.


Corinna

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