From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E5DBC88 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:19:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j11EJcML004445 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:19:39 +0100 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 PAA00724 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:19:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (SLINKY.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.20.14]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j11EJbns004437 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:19:38 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j11EJaW3008103; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:19:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 09:19:35 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr To: Christophe TROESTLER Cc: "O'Caml Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [WISH] Unix.fstat and symlinks for win32 In-Reply-To: <20050201.110702.30392529.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> Message-ID: References: <20050201.110702.30392529.Christophe.Troestler@umh.ac.be> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41FF8FFA.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41FF8FF9.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 fstat:01 symlinks:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 wrote:01 symbolic:01 imho:01 fwiw:01 o'caml:01 symlinks:01 o'caml:01 ...:98 unix:01 unix:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT