From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 03:47:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (stat): Fall-back to default behaviour when we cannot get
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.3~63
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=710ea1b88df094830200f6082163b231591f0250;p=emacs.git

(stat): Fall-back to default behaviour when we cannot get
accurate information on file attributes.
---

diff --git a/src/w32.c b/src/w32.c
index ca4b50ecb2d..68ed2b5dcbb 100644
--- a/src/w32.c
+++ b/src/w32.c
@@ -1948,16 +1948,16 @@ stat (const char * path, struct stat * buf)
       buf->st_nlink = 2;	/* doesn't really matter */
       fake_inode = 0;		/* this doesn't either I think */
     }
-  else if (!NILP (Vw32_get_true_file_attributes))
+  else if (!NILP (Vw32_get_true_file_attributes)
+	   /* No access rights required to get info.  */
+	   && (fh = CreateFile (name, 0, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL))
+	      != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
     {
       /* This is more accurate in terms of gettting the correct number
 	 of links, but is quite slow (it is noticable when Emacs is
 	 making a list of file name completions). */
       BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION info;
 
-      /* No access rights required to get info.  */
-      fh = CreateFile (name, 0, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, NULL);
-
       if (GetFileInformationByHandle (fh, &info))
 	{
 	  switch (GetFileType (fh))