"Thomas Witt" <witt@acm.org> wrote in message news:d58cm5$mso$1@sea.gmane.org...
Hmm, what's the benefit of having symlink_status() and status() ? Wouldn't one function suffice that sets the symlink flag when a symlink is encoutered on the way. I.e.
symlink_flag | directory_flag
identifies a symlink pointing to a directory
symlink_flag | not_found_flag
identifies a symlink pointing to a non existing file/dir
and so on ...
I considered that briefly, but rejected it because status() on POSIX would then require two calls; one to stat() and one to lstat(). There is also a nice simplicity in the current design; the functions always returns a value with one and only one flag set. Neither of those are really killer arguments, so if others think it would be better to have a single status() function, I'd like to hear their arguments. Thanks, --Beman