0000160: Unix.stat under Windows

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(0002137) administrator (administrator) 2000-07-25 18:25	> Perhaps this is not a bug. However, it's something I tripped over. > Unix.stat is behaving with different conventions under Windows and > Unix. > For example, in Windows, Unix.stat on "c:\\windows\\" and > "c:/windows/" will always fail, while Unix.stat on "c:/windows" or > "c:\\windows" will succeed. > > In contrast, under Solaris Unix.stat will succeed on both "/usr" > and "/usr/". > > More confusing: in Windows Unix.stat will succeed with "/windows" but > fail with "/windows/". > > Finally, in Windows Unix.stat on "c:\\" and "c:/" will succeed, and > Unix.stat on "c:" will fail. (In fact c: refers to the current > directory). Right. Unix.stat is just a wrapper around the C library stat() function, which (in Visual C++ 6.0) is implemented using FindFirstFile(). The latter is documented as not accepting trailing slashes, and not accepting a root directory such as C:\. The stat() wrapper in the C library special-cases root directories, but not trailing slashes... - Xavier

(0002138) administrator (administrator) 2000-07-25 18:29	Windows lossage.

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