jonb@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) (12/07/90)
OK, lets get one thing straight.
The world is NOT a VAX, nor is it a BSD derivative.
The world is a mix, Xenix, Unix V7, BSD 4.2, BSD 4.3, SunOS, RISC-OS,
Ultrix, SYS V.3.x, Minix, SYS V.4... to mention a few.
Thus, when you refer to stat, you can never be sure what you get.
When you refer to symbolic links, you can be sure that not everyone
has them. Same thing applies to sockets and streams and things like
that.
What i would ask is that if you make a statement that all you need to
do is look at the size of the file (to determine if it has holes in it)
then you also add a qualifier about using st_blocks, and how on BSD 4.x
that this corresponds to the real number of blocks.
That would save a lot of the confusion.
Thanks!
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