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Re: [PATCH] stat: remove _GL_WINDOWS_STAT_INODES == 2 support
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [PATCH] stat: remove _GL_WINDOWS_STAT_INODES == 2 support |
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Fri, 29 May 2020 01:21:49 +0200 |
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Steve Lhomme wrote:
> It may be outdated code, the value is never 2.
The value is currently never 2, correct. But you can see from the patch
that introduced this code [1] that the reason why it's not enabled is
that it requires -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 or higher. Obviously
at a moment when many people still ran Windows 7, I did not want to
enable it.
Bruno
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2017-05/msg00106.html