On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 21:33 Australia/Brisbane, Robert Brenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


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Hmm, actually, when one walks directories, shouldn't one walk only the true directories and treat aliases as files (which they are)?

Yes. As I intimated in my previous post, and have now verified again by experiment, the walker is *not* fooled by an alias.
I created this structure on a separate volume called "sliver":
tmp
a real file, called "CRS BC Report.mell"
a real directory, called "parent of fake"
an alias to "tmp"


On being asked to walk this, the handler returned two files as follows:
   /Volumes/sliver/tmp/CRS+BC+Report.mell
   /Volumes/sliver/tmp/parent of fake/tmp
with maxDepth of 2, and did not loop. This is correct behaviour.

The problem I described in my previous post does not arise from an alias, but from a reference in //Networks to "[your computer name].local." which kicks off the cycling.

regards
David

Robert

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