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From: craigb@hp-sdd.hp.com (Craig Bosworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Possible bug in Turbo C 2.0 stat()
Message-ID: <2458@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 24 Aug 89 17:40:01 GMT
References: <30865@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: craigb@hp-sdd.hp.com (Craig Bosworth)
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego
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I wrote a little test for stat().  It looks like you can use it on any
directory except the root.

  stat("\\", &statbuf);        fails
  stat("c:\\", &statbuf);      fails
  stat(".", &statbuf);         succeeds, except when current directory is root

This may be because there is no entry for the root directory.  Maybe stat only
works on structures that have a directory entry.

BOS
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