[Mingw-users] Re: stat()/_stat()

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Andy,


Andy Ross <an...@pl...> writes:

> I don't know how to interpret this.  Perhaps it's just me, but it
> sounds vaguely insulting,

I apologize for that.  I was in a bit of a bad mood.

> Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
>> I doubt that anything in MS documentation or the C language
>> standard contradicts the behaviour of text mode.
>> [...]
>> ... I am surprised that the first rule does not seem to be in MS's
>> docs for the runtime.
>
> Those statements can't both be true.

This may be nitpicking, but I (intentionally) didn't say that MS
documented text mode completely.  They do document that they do things
that make your code invalid, but as I read they docs I have seen, they
leave open that they may also do other things.

In addition the C standard gives them a lot of wiggle-room here,
making all kinds of things undefined in the face of text mode.  And
then stat() isn't even in any applicable standard at all.  (This is
just to clarify my understanding, I guess you yourself knew most of
this already.)


so long, benny