In Windows, there are junctions, which are more or less equivalent.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365006(v=vs.85).aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365503(v=vs.85).aspx

Phil

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]>
wrote:

> yes it is.
> but you can create an FFI function to http://linux.die.net/man/2/readlink
> to get that :)
>
> Esteban
>
> > On 20 Apr 2016, at 18:11, Damien Cassou <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> it has it.
> >> this is how is done in mac:
> >>
> >> *isSymlink        = [[fileAttributes objectForKey: NSFileType]
> isEqualToString: NSFileTypeSymbolicLink] ? 1 : 0;
> >>
> >> and this how is done in linux:
> >>
> >> stat(unixPath, &statBuf) && lstat(unixPath, &statBuf)
> >> ...
> >> *isSymlink = S_ISLNK(statBuf.st_mode);
> >>
> >> … and in windows is always false.
> >
> > ok for isSymlink, but how do you get to the file pointed to by the
> > symlink? Damien says it's impossible with current FilePlugin.
> >
> > --
> > Damien Cassou
> > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st
> >
> > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
> > losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
>
>
>
>

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