You can do link-info instead.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 13:42 HP wei <[email protected]> wrote:

> While trying out the word each-file,  I bumped into presumably
> a bug in
>
> file-info ( path -- info )
>
> Under linux,
> if the path is a softlink (symbolic link),
>
> path file-info symbolic-link?
>
> gives 'f'   ---- and this is wrong.
>
> I looked at the implementation of file-info
> and saw that it calls file-status which in turn calls
> stat-func.
> The latter calls __xstat64  ---- this seems to be related to stat function.
>
> Under linux, there are two functions that returns the stat-structure.
> One is stat, the other lstat.
> If a path is a symbolic link,
> It is lstat that will return info about the link.
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> As a result of this 'bug',  the following (as suggested by John the other
> day)
> could not do what is intended (to get the size of a folder).
>
> 0 a_path_to_folder t [ file-info dup symbolic-link? [ drop ] [ size>> + ]
> if  ] each-file
>
>
> --HP Wei
>
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