Yeah, that was one of my thoughts also...

But...  In my specific case, so it could crop up anywhere...  The
symlink points to a file in a directory that I cannot filescan or
read...

I wonder what error it would give if I just tried to cd into a file via
a symlink...  Hmmmmm



-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel F. Savarese [mailto:dfs@;savarese.org] 
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:44 PM
To: Jakarta Commons Users List
Subject: Re: FW: Need some advice -> with ANT FTP and symlinked files 



In message <000201c28a07$0c154580$6400a8c0@s2701>, "Bill Chmura" writes:
>Someone on the ANT-dev mailing list suggested I talk with the 
>apache-commons folk for possible help...
>
>Any ideas?

If the problem is that you can't tell if a symlink points to a file or a
directory, the only way I know to tell is by listing what the symlink
points to (which could be another symlink) recursively until you end up
with either a file or a directory (making sure to avoid an infinite loop
caused by cycles in the graph).

daniel




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