Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/26/2011 03:42 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I don't know about typical mingw file system usage. >> Do mingw users use NTFS often? > > Yes, all of them. MinGW is just the name of the free compiler > toolchain for Windows. Unlike cygwin, it uses the MS C library, so > anything MS documents applies to mingw.
Bear in mind that cross-compiling mingw users often use ext3 and ext4, so any run-time test in a stat-like replacement function would affect them, too.
