Re: Behavior of stat() changed from NT to Win2000/XP

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:58:11AM -0400, Peter Davis wrote:
> On Windows NT, the Cygwin stat function returns a non-zero value in
> the st_size field when called on a directory.  However, in Windows
> 2000 and Windows XP, this same function returns 0 for st_size for a
> directory.  This change in behavior has broken some features of mutt,
> and possible other programs as well.
> [...]
> Is there some Cygwin setting or configuration option that controls
> this? 

That's Windows, actually.  This value is returned for directories
by the FindFile routines.  Nothing we can do about it.  However, if
mutt depends on the st_size of a directory, that's a problem in mutt.

Corinna

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