Hi, > > ... which reminds me that when I fail to close() in plain DOS, > > stat() does not reflect current file size while it does in > > DOSEMU redirection drives. The DESIRED behaviour is that only > > after close() the stat() information (directory entry) should > > be updated, so plain DOS is "right" here (!). > > What is DESIRED here? I always thought that directory entries were > "undefined" rather than "not updated" until you close or commit (sync).
Well, this is not really important, but it would help finding bugs in DOS programs. I found the difference when I noticed that one of my own programs worked better in DOSEMU than in plain FreeDOS ;-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
