From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-04 05:20:42


Thomas Witt wrote:
> Beman,
>
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Neither of those are really killer arguments, so if others think it
>> would be better to have a single status() function, I'd like to hear
>> their arguments.
>
> I am up in the air about it. On the one hand it seems wrong to me to
> have a suboptimal interface only because posix has one, on the other
> hand performance might be an issue.

How does your suggestion handle the symlink to symlink case?