Re: [PATCH] canonicalize: add support for not resolving symlinks

[Eric Blake]

On 12/30/2011 12:19 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/30/11 08:36, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> unless you can declare struct rpl_stat with the same layout
>> as struct stat, you have an API incompatibility that can cause
>> compilation errors in various circumstances.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I was assuming that we '#define stat rpl_stat'
> before including the system <sys/stat.h>, so that 'struct stat'
> becomes 'struct rpl_stat' everywhere.  But we don't do that,
> presumably because some <sys/stat.h>s #define stat
> to something else, on their own.

Yes, most often to something like struct stat64; see commit 298d8b4
where this is a problem in practice that we had to work around for AIX.

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