Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/24/2011 09:06 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > >  What about a few POSIX-violating fringe operating systems (Windows and
> > >  DJGPP come to mind)?:)   For Windows we can write our own stat
> > >  function in cygwin, but for DJGPP I think we're in a bad situation...
> AFAIK, DJGPP is not relevant these days.
> What Windows environment are you worried about?

All.  Microsoft documentation says that st_ino is zero for "FAT, HPFS, 
or NTFS file systems".

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/14h5k7ff%28v=VS.100%29.aspx

However, we could fix that in gnulib.

Paolo