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- Subject: Re: MiNTlib bugs (well, possible bugs)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 21:51:56 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9401191430.AA11672@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>; from "Andreas Schwab" at Jan 19, 94 3:30 pm
- Message-Id: <9401202052.AA00212@jelal.north.de>
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- Andreas Schwab writes:
-
- > Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com> writes:
- >
- > |>> 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...
- >
- > POSIX is a *minimal* specification, and there are some (not
- > necessarily old) Unix filesystems that don't support symlinks.
-
- and then there are some people who say POSIX was only invented so VMS
- would follow a standard...
-
- ;-)
- Juergen
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