# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 903066430 0
# Node ID a8c03459429219206f5ef0de8119255a981511ed
# Parent  4dad612df002c3150d4b094fde5d8cdc8edd44b8
(stat): Fall-back to default behaviour when we cannot get
accurate information on file attributes.

diff -r 4dad612df002 -r a8c034594292 src/w32.c
--- a/src/w32.c	Fri Aug 14 01:15:33 1998 +0000
+++ b/src/w32.c	Fri Aug 14 03:47:10 1998 +0000
@@ -1948,16 +1948,16 @@
       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))