Hi, On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ah, you misread me. What I was trying to drive at was if we find the > subtle difference between Cygwin's lstat(2) emulation and lstat(2) > result from the NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, we could start and fuel > flamewar on _other_ lists (namely, kernel and Cygwin) saying "you guys > are inconsistent which inconvenience applications great deal". I have no access to cygwin right now, so I'll argue using MinGW instead. As I already said, I do not know what would happen if we touched st_ino. We'd likely have to touch it, since it takes 2 bytes on MinGW, and 4 bytes on Linux. Also, IIRC Cygwin fakes the inodes; and it depends on the Cygwin version, how it does it. Also, we check st_uid and st_gid explicitely, which is more a problem to be solved by the person mounting the filesystem than the person maintaining the filesystem driver. AFAICT we do not use st_dev anyway. > And watching other people flame each other is a lot more fun than > flamewar raging close to home ;-). Sometimes I find them fun here, too. That is, if it is not such a tiring flamewar as the renaming issues which creep up regularly. Ciao, Dsho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html