[bug-gnulib] Re: stat and lstat should define their replacements

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Also, while we're on the subject of lstat, what operating systems
> have the bug caught by AC_FUNC_LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK?
> If they are sufficiently old, perhaps we can simply remove
> the lstat module as well.  That would be nice.

It's going to be a few years.
At least the following systems have the bug:

  Darwin 7.2.0 (MacOS 10.3.2)
  FreeBSD 5.0
  IRIX 6.5
  Solaris 7
  Solaris 8
  Solaris 9

They fail the test for whether

  lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash...

in that the configure-time test says `no' and does not
define LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK.