id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
607	file-type does not work on Windows	Jim Ursetto	felix winkelmann	"Because unknown file types like S_IFLNK are defined to S_IFREG on Windows, file-type will always report symbolic-link for regular files (and regular-file? will return #f).

Attached patch tests for S_IFREG first, fixing the problem.  FYI, applying with ""git am filename.patch"" will propagate authorship credit.

Alternative solution: define S_IFLNK etc. to 0.  Slightly more dangerous but all platforms should have no zero file type flags.  posix-extras currently uses this method."	defect	closed	major	4.9.0	core libraries	4.7.x	fixed