[Mono-bugs] [Bug 79887][Wis] Changed - DirectoryInfo doesn't honor symbolic links anymore

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Changed by mail at meebey.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79887

--- shadow/79887	2006-11-10 13:34:07.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/79887.tmp.12733	2006-11-11 07:51:14.000000000 -0500
@@ -45,6 +45,25 @@
 for how ms plans to deal with symbolic links in future releases.
 
 Not all the mono io-layer code handles symlinks correctly according to
 that link, but the DirectoryInfo change is correct in its current
 behaviour.  A simple C test on windows also shows GetFileAttributes()
 called on a symlink to a directory returns info on the symlink.
+
+------- Additional Comments From mail at meebey.net  2006-11-11 07:51 -------
+Ok, I agree with you, but you pointed me to the wrong bugreport regard
+the regression if using Directory.Exists() on symlinks that points to
+directories, that is different than getting the DirectoryInfo like in
+this bugreport was stated.
+
+Directory.Exists() breaks many code, for example it breaks the
+compiler, you can _not_ compile anything anything if the sources comes
+from a symlinked path or if the compile target goes to a symlinked
+path. This is a big problem.
+
+About the Microsoft link, to me it looks like they do the almost same
+as Unix does for the file operations.
+
+So what is the cause of this bug then? I only could find
+Directory.Exists as cause via mono --trace which returns False because
+my source files are "behind" a symlinked directory.
+