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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK, Posix isn't available on windows and I would rather not have ugly
#ifdef/#endif statements if I can avoid it.

I discovered that the issue is the library table lookup by uri code so
fixing this is going to be a bit more complicated than I initially
thought because uris can be more than just file names.

On 12/7/2017 8:30 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>    int
>      lstat(constchar*restrictpath, structstat*restrictbuf);
> 
> 
> So yes macOS has stat, apparently it came from 4.2 BSD, Is one of the
> posix functions not able to do what is needed?
> 
> 
>> On 8/12/2017, at 2:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/7/2017 3:14 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 7. Dec 2017, at 00:27, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, technically this is the same library.
>>>>> It is only reachable by 2 different paths (the real and the
>>>>> symlinked one).
>>>>
>>>> I could check for symlinks.  I'm not sure how much trouble it would be.
>>>> I'll take a look at it as soon as I get a chance.
>>>
>>> I never tried, but maybe using realpath(…) on both sides of the
>>> comparison could just do the trick.
>>> And maybe eliminates also other weird path constructs…?
>>
>> Thanks for the tip.  I dug through the wxWidget's wxFileName source and
>> found that wxFileName::SameAs() method does an lstat() on platforms that
>> support it if the comparison operator between two wxFileName objects
>> fails.  It should be a simple change (famous last words).  I'm assuming
>> macos has lstat.  If not, then I will have to find another solution.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bernhard
>>>
>>
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