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Sebb commented on IO-295:
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At present, the method always returns false for Windows systems.
Not sure whether it's possible to detect symbolic links on Windows (except by 
using Java 7 of course).
                
> FileUtils.isSymlinks misses symlink folders
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-295
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-295
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>         Environment: Windows 7 64 bit, Oracle Java 7
>            Reporter: Ron Gross
>
> I created a symlink folder via mklink.
> Then, while debugging, I noticed that FileUtils.isSymlink() returns false on 
> this directory, while Java 7's Files.isSymbolicLink() returns true.

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