From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA15219; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:33:56 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16148 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:33:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4PFXrSH028048 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 17:33:54 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSdvI-0002nW-00; Tue, 25 May 2004 08:33:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:33:00 -0700 From: David Brown To: skaller Cc: Olivier Andrieu , caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] lstat on windows native Message-ID: <20040525153300.GA10717@davidb.org> References: <1085470849.6065.457.camel@pelican.wigram> <20040525.105531.13989532.andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr> <1085478090.6065.498.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085478090.6065.498.camel@pelican.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40B36761.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 implemented:01 symlinks:01 semantics:01 semantics:01 filesystem:02 imply:02 native:02 dave:03 wrote:03 seems:05 quite:06 stat:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:41:30PM +1000, skaller wrote: > Ah, ok .. that isn't what the documentation seems to imply > by saying 'not implemented'. If you are correct, > it *is* implemented, just having quite different > semantics. Since windows doesn't have symlinks the semantics of stat and lstat would be the same. Also, don't you need to ignore '.' and '..' on windows as well? They are at least present in the FAT filesystem, although the directory reading operations may not return them. Dave Brown ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners