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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Determining the names of devices installed in DOS
Message-ID: <134@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 15:41:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 15:41:22 1987
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Summary: only sort of redundant
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In article <4717@iucs.UUCP>, bobmon@iucs.UUCP (RAMontante [condition that I not be identified]) writes:

> TurboC's doc. for stat and fstat indicate that they return (among other
> things) a bitmask which includes and S_IFREG flag for ordinary files; fstat
> also returns S_IFCHR to (redundantly?) indicate a device.

I think they did this to make testing easier,
or at least more obvious to the less machine-guts-aware
programmers [to whom the price of turbo-C would
allow possibly the first hope of a C compiler
with documentation.]

If you did a little testing, I think you would find
that these two flags are complements of eachother.
[That is, I can't think when they would not be]

Rob.