Re: mingw lseek bug

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 5/24/2007 4:08 AM:
>>   if (PeekNamedPipe ((HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd), NULL, 0, NULL, NULL,
>> NULL))
> 
> But there are other types of devices as well, such as special character
> devices (COM: and consoles). It looks safer to include only the regular
> files:
>   GetFileType ((HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd)) == FILE_TYPE_DISK.

At the same time, NUL (corresponding to /dev/null) should appear to be
seekable, even though it is a character device and is always at position
0.  Is mingw's fstat reliable enough to get any of this information, or
does it take native Windows calls like this thread has been suggesting?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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