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  r64214 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-06-13 02:42:22 +0200 (ven., 13 juin 2008) | 6 lines

  Restore support for Microsoft VC6 compiler.
  Some functions in the msvcrt module are skipped,
  and socket.ioctl is enabled only when using a more recent Platform SDK.

  (and yes, there are still companies that use a 10-years old compiler)
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diff --git a/PC/getpathp.c b/PC/getpathp.c
index e2beec1..669ed9f 100644
--- a/PC/getpathp.c
+++ b/PC/getpathp.c
@@ -117,8 +117,7 @@
 static int
 exists(wchar_t *filename)
 {
-	struct _stat64 buf;
-	return _wstat64(filename, &buf) == 0;
+	return GetFileAttributesW(filename) != 0xFFFFFFFF;
 }
 
 /* Assumes 'filename' MAXPATHLEN+1 bytes long -