From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Christophe TROESTLER <Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
Cc: "O'Caml Mailing List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [WISH] Unix.fstat and symlinks for win32
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:19:35 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0502010918140.7712@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050201.110702.30392529.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be>
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a small note to tell that I think it would be nice to have
> support for Unix.*stat on win32. Not all characteristics may make
> sense but [file_kind], [st_size], [st_perm], [st_*time] do.
>
> Also, why not treat *.lnk as symbolic links under win32? IMHO it
> would be more an asset than an hindrance.
FWIW, the Cygwin version of O'Caml has Unix.*stat, *and* treats (certain
kinds of) shortcuts as symlinks.
Igor Pechtchanski, volunteer O'Caml maintainer for Cygwin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-01 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-01 10:07 Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-01 11:39 ` [Caml-list] " Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-01 12:38 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-01 14:19 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2005-02-02 9:54 ` Xavier Leroy
2005-02-02 12:52 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-02 15:08 ` Christopher A. Watford
2005-02-02 22:08 ` Robert Roessler
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