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delete task follow symbolic links





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2001-09-27 09:06 -------
With respect to SMB:
Let us say we have a file c1 and a symlink to that, say, c2.  Both these files 
are in a Unix/Linux system.

Using SMB, this file becomes available to a Windows machine.  In this case, the 
getCanonicalPath and getAbsolutePath that gets returned by the Windows JVM are 
one and the same.  In fact, if we issue File.delete on c2, just c2 will be 
deleted.  The JVM will not be intelligent enough to resolve the symlink in this 
case.  In other words, when Samba is used, and a delete is attempted from 
Windows, the delete task will *not* follow symlinks - it won't even know it is 
a symlink - it is just another file as far as Windows is concerned.

+1 to patch it against 1.5 branch and get user feedback.  I don't have access 
to various systems you have mentioned (OS-X, OS/2, OpenVMS) and I have to rely 
on the feedback to include additional criteria.  

Thanks,
Magesh

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