Just a small note on this to save anyone else the trouble of looking it up (as I did).
The implementation is the same - it runs readlink to a small buffer and checks if it worked - it is just written up as a (gnulib) function so it doesn't have to be re-invented. I had been curious if there was any other (better) way to figure out if something was a symlink or not; apparently, there isn't. Incidentally, I wonder what would happen if you passed 0 as the buffer length... ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on.
