[Mono-list] Symbolic Links

[Chris Howie]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:09 PM, cce32 <cce32 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Currently I develop in Visual Studio 2008 and run on Linux.
>
> It appears directoryInfo.GetFiles("*", SearchOption.AllDirectories) returns
> a FileInfo instance for both files and symlinks.  In other words I get
> duplicates.
>
> Is there any portable way to determine if a file is a symlink?  Or to ignore
> symlinks with GetFiles?

Since Windows doesn't have any notion of a symlink, it's not likely
that there will be any such mechanism in the MS runtime.  On
Linux/Unix systems though, you can just use Mono.Posix to make this
determination.  I believe Mono.Posix is released as MIT/X11 so you
could distribute it with your app and its methods will probably just
throw exceptions on Windows.

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Chris Howie
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