Re: [perl #31884] Compile fails on Win32 b/c of "stat"

[Dan Sugalski]

At 3:59 PM +0200 10/8/04, Ronald Blaschke wrote:
 > This there a Win32 API stat()-like function that makes it worth to write
 win32/stat.c?
Not one that I have found.  And:
perl returns no value for block size and blocks on Activestate Perl
5.8.4 (on win32).
All the stat things with _PLATFORM_ in their names are meant to be 
platform-dependent things, so not having them on windows is just 
fine. I thought they'd be part of the standard stat interface and 
thus not a problem (albeit perhaps returning 0 or something 
meaningless) on platforms that supported stat() but didn't do 
individual things, but I guess not. :(

Having a win-specific stat.c is probably in order, with it not 
defining any of the unavailable _PLATFORM_ things. (As well as adding 
in anything win-specific that it might be useful to have, but after 
0.1.1 gets released)
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