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Re: lstat symbolic link size


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:33:18AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
> >Ok, here it is.
> >
> >2004-01-07  Brian Ford  <ford@vss.fsi.com>
> >
> >	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_helper): Comply with
> >	SUSv3 for a symlink's st_size, ie. the length of the target
> >	pathname.
> >
> Thanks but that is not the correct fix.  The target pathname is not the
> windows path.
>
Ok, sorry for the noise.  I was trying to use readlink as my example and
that was what it appeared to do :).

I'll just wait until you have time to fix CVS HEAD so I can test and
debug.  Then, I'll try it again.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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