From 4070c2d4659ec8449af46f0de91e603e3b4241c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvid Norberg <arvid@libtorrent.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:21:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed stat_file issue on windows

---
 include/libtorrent/file.hpp | 2 +-
 src/file.cpp                | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libtorrent/file.hpp b/include/libtorrent/file.hpp
index 8a45a5b03..a98e35a9b 100644
--- a/include/libtorrent/file.hpp
+++ b/include/libtorrent/file.hpp
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ namespace libtorrent
 	};
 
 	enum stat_flags_t { dont_follow_links = 1 };
-	TORRENT_EXPORT void stat_file(std::string const& f, file_status* s
+	TORRENT_EXPORT void stat_file(std::string f, file_status* s
 		, error_code& ec, int flags = 0);
 	TORRENT_EXPORT void rename(std::string const& f
 		, std::string const& newf, error_code& ec);
diff --git a/src/file.cpp b/src/file.cpp
index 964036ca1..0038db640 100644
--- a/src/file.cpp
+++ b/src/file.cpp
@@ -135,10 +135,17 @@ BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT((libtorrent::file::no_buffer & libtorrent::file::attribute_m
 
 namespace libtorrent
 {
-	void stat_file(std::string const& inf, file_status* s
+	void stat_file(std::string inf, file_status* s
 		, error_code& ec, int flags)
 	{
 		ec.clear();
+#ifdef TORRENT_WINDOWS
+		// apparently windows doesn't expect paths
+		// to directories to ever end with a \ or /
+		if (!inf.empty() && (inf[inf.size() - 1] == '\\'
+			|| inf[inf.size() - 1] == '/'))
+			inf.resize(inf.size() - 1);
+#endif
 
 #if TORRENT_USE_WSTRING && defined TORRENT_WINDOWS
 		std::wstring f = convert_to_wstring(inf);