Comment author: administrator

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

Comment author: administrator

Windows lossage.