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- From: Donn Terry <uunet!hpfcrn.fc.hp.com!donn>
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- >From: andrew@alice.uucp (Andrew Hume)
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- >the posix 1003.1 standard has cleverly evaded naming of bits
- >in the mode field of the stat structure. it does this by
- >defining tests (like S_ISDIR(mode) rather than (mode&S_IFMT)==S_IFDIR).
- >the question is, how do people deal with sym links? I simply
- >added a S_ISLNK macro but would prefer to go with the flow
- >if there is one.
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- This is exactly the kind of thing that is being done in 1003.1b, where
- symbolic links are being addressed. The current draft even uses the
- same spelling you do.
-
- Donn Terry
- (NOT speaking in any official way) Chair of 1003.1
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 16
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-