stat matters

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:33:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>2) There is a comment in fhandler_disk_file::fstat to the effect that a 
>>   "query open" is much faster than a normal open.
>>   So, why don't we do a query open when possible, i.e. also for dirs, sockets,
>>   symlinks, and more importantly, whenever has_acls(), ntsec and
>>   wincap.has_security () are true?
>
>This is supposed to be caught for anything which opens a file like
>sockets or symlinks.  The other cases are not caught, though.  I'll add
>something to path.cc to handle this.

Which I've done.

This patch pulled over some other ongoing work from my sandbox but hopefully
it will be harmless.

cgf