[Mono-list] Symbolic Links

[Juan C. Olivares]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


Actually, there are symlinks on NTFS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

But they are not popular :)


> 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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