NT vs Unix perl nits
Arthur Corliss
corliss at sinbad.net
Thu Apr 1 15:16:33 CST 1999
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rox Reid-Bennett wrote:
> I'm relatively new to perl on NT, so....
>
> Has anybody else run perl on an NT box and run up against "stat" not
> working?
;-) I avoid NT at all costs, so can't help much.
> Jim was attempting to figure out the count of subdirs using stat. Works
> fine on a Unix box, returns "1" in all cases on the NT box. (using the
> value from nlink)
What filesystem is he trying it on? NTFS is somewhat limited in its posix
compliance (or is it the OS'es fault ;-). While NTFS knows what links are,
Windows apps wouldn't know what to do with it when they saw it. . .
--Arthur Corliss
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