Inspired by Tim Peters' 1.14->1.15 checkin to asynchat Quoting orignal message: ''' Fix from the Madusa mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medusa/message/333 It's clear that Medusa should not be checking for an empty buffer via "buf is ''". The patch merely changes "is" to "==". However, there's a mystery here all the same: Python attempts to store null strings uniquely, so it's unclear why "buf is ''" ever returned false when buf actually was empty. *Some* string operations produce non-unique null strings, e.g. '''

/* Subroutine to get the last modification time of a file */

/* (A separate file because this may be OS dependent) */

#include "Python.h"
#include "config.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#ifndef DONT_HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
#ifndef DONT_HAVE_SYS_STAT_H
#include <sys/stat.h>
#elif defined(HAVE_STAT_H)
#include <stat.h>
#endif

time_t
PyOS_GetLastModificationTime(char *path, FILE *fp)
{
	struct stat st;
	if (fstat(fileno(fp), &st) != 0)
		return -1;
	else
		return st.st_mtime;
}