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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1550 delete task follow symbolic links ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-12-24 12:44 ------- This problem is not just with the delete task. Suppose you want to copy a filesystem that contains symbolic links. The JVM will happily follow the symbolic links rather than copy the links themselves. For a specific example, we host a large website. The top-level pages have symbolic links that Apache follows to the content. We can't use Ant to copy the pages from our source to destination because Ant will follow the links and copy the content. We get around this problem by using the <exec> task and calling tar/untar to perform the copy. Fundamentally, the problem is that Java has little or no knowledge of symbolic links. Unfortunately, this won't get into the 1.4 JDK. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
