Re: [PATCH] remove unnecessary loop

[Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:49:35 +0800, Liu Yubao wrote:
>> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
>> +		/*
>> +		 * On cygwin, lstat("hello", &st) returns 0 when
>> +		 * "hello.exe" exists, so test with open() again.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (lstat(match, &st) && -1 != (fd = open(match, O_RDONLY))) {
>> +			struct dir_entry *ent;
>> +			close(fd);
>> +#else
>>  		if (!lstat(match, &st)) {
>>  			struct dir_entry *ent;
>> -
>> +#endif
> 
> You seem to have reversed the sense of the test.
> 
Sorry I made a mistake, Junio's suggestion is pretty clean, and
that test should be
		if (!lstat(match, &st) && -1 != (fd = open(match, O_RDONLY))) {

Yesterday I digged the Cygwin mail archive, I found it's a concession for windows
as you said in the previous message. I agree with you, just let it be.

Once more, I get the lesson: Windows is poor, sigh...