Re: RFE: stat(1) flag for learning the d_type value of a given file

[Mike Frysinger]

On 13 Oct 2014 14:34, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/13/2014 02:14 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Maybe, though coreutils' tests also check d_type is available.
> > Would this suffice for cygwin?
> > 
> > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=tests/d_type-check;hb=HEAD
> 
> That seems like a useful starting point for a hack, but it's a bit too
> platform-specific (libc = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary("libc.so.6") has no
> chance on Cygwin

it also doesn't hold true for all Linux/glibc platforms, let alone 
Linux/non-glibc.  if you were to leverage ctypes.util.find_library however, 
you'd have a much better chance ...
        libc = ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('c'), use_errno=True)
-mike

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