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- Subject: Re: MiNTlib bugs (well, possible bugs)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:54:58 -0500 (EST)
- From: Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com>
- In-Reply-To: <9401171652.AA02366@acae127> from "jwahar r. bammi" at Jan 17, 94 11:52:53 am
- Message-Id: <9401171305.af12262@ncrhub1.NCR.COM>
-
- What you wrote:
- > there is absolutely no guarantee that the VALUE of symbolic
- > constants in header files (like S_IFLNK in stat.h) across systems will
- > be the same. if your file format depends on the binary value of some
- > symbolic constant being portable across systems, it should be
- > re-examine this assumption.
-
- Well, it wasn't a filesystem assumption, it was an assumption in the
- UnZip code. I guess my "work around" was the right solution then.
-
- > in fact, the current posix standard does not even define
- > S_ISLNK() (but i think posix-92 was supposed to approve it).
-
- Yipes! Doesn't the POSIX filesystem have symlinks? I guess they forgot
- the handy macro...
-
- > what do you have against octal?
-
- Hex looks sexier. :-) Actually, it was more a case of me being a twit;
- I kept looking at the 0160000 in stat.h and seeing 0x160000, so I was WAY
- off...
-
- Thanks for clarifying for me!
-
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