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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: lstat
To: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 00:34:52 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <28845.199701101500@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Jan 10, 97 03:00:14 pm"
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Zefram wrote:
> The 3.0.3-test3 patch includes:
> 
> >+ #ifdef HAVE_LSTAT
> >  		lstat(fn, &sbuf);
> >+ #else
> >+ 		stat(fn, &sbuf);
> >+ #endif
> 
> but system.h says:
> 
> >#ifndef HAVE_LSTAT
> ># define lstat stat
> >#endif
> 
> so there is no need for that sort of conditional.

I did not notice that.  This define is buggy in system.h.  Some CPP's require

#define lstat(X,Y) stat(X,Y)

I'll remove those unnecessary conditionals and fix the headers.

Zoltan