Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Lstat issue

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Johnny Willemsen writes:
>  > I think the only solution which works for everyone is to make lstat
>  > a function in MinGW, not a define.
>
> IMHO, just remove the lstat #define, and don't add any function
> either. I think such a define (or function) only serves to confuse
> people and configure scripts. A configure script might think that the
> system actually has symbolic links if it notices it has lstat().
>
> Any non-trivial software that uses lstat() probably wants to use
> readlink(), too, or uses S_IFLNK. So it will need a (trivial) porting
> effort to build on Windows anyway.

I agree totally.  While were at it, get rid of the related ELOOP define in
errno.h.
These "pretend" defines only pollute the namespace.

Danny
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