[Mono-dev] Mono.Unix - UnixDirectoryInfo.IsSymbolyicLinkquestion

[Paddy Joy]

Thanks for the link to the code, I think I can figure out the rest of my 
questions from there :-)

Paddy

>On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:37 +1000, Paddy Joy wrote:
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>>Thanks for the background info and help, it all makes a lot more sense now. 
>>I'm using UnixSymbolicLinkInfo now and getting the correct results.
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>>So am I correct in saying that if you have a UnixDirectoryInfo object the 
>>IsSymbolicLink property will never be set to true because it will always 
>>reference the sym link target
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>This is correct, *unless* the filesystem encounters
>UnixEnvironment.GetConfigurationValue (SysConf._SC_SYMLOOP_MAX) symbolic
>links when searching for the target, in which case an error will occur
>(Errno.ELOOP, which is mapped to a UnixIOException).
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>>Also since we are on the subject of UnixDirectoryInfo :-) Is the 
>>GetFileSystemEntries() method a implementation of the 
>>DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories() for the linux filesystem or is it something 
>>completly different?
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>UnixDirectoryInfo.GetFileSystemEntries() is a wrapper over
>Syscall.opendir()/Syscall.readdir_r()/Syscall.closedir().  So it could
>be considered to be an implementation of
>System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetFileSystemInfos() using the native POSIX
>APIs.  It's not Linux-specific, just POSIX-specific.
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>You might find the source interesting; it's available at:
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>	http://mono.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/mcs/class/Mono.Posix/Mono.Unix
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> - Jon
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