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Re: Getting filetype

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:50:44 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Jose Baars wrote:

>> libssh2-specific bits, so I'm gonna introduce a set of
>> LIBSSH2_SFTP_S_IS***() macros that mirror the functionality.
>>
> I thought they were POSIX defined macro's? Most C-compilers would support
> those then, wouldn't they?

Right, on most systems this isn't needed. But:

1. the struct and data libssh2 returns in libssh2_sftp_fstat_ex() is not
    fully POSIX compliant which may cause subtle differences somewher

and perhaps most importantly:

2. libssh2 isn't limited to working on POSIX compliant platforms, so by
    providing its own set of defines and macros applications can remain the
    same when using libssh2 in a portable fashion. 

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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