From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-02-17T02:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Found a Find.find() bug?

On Feb 16, 2:16 am, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 15.02.2007 23:25, robertlafe...@comcast.net wrote:> Sorry, there was a typo in my e-mail.  One should be "/tmp" and the other should be "/tmp/"
>
>  > And yes, I am using this on Mac OS X where /tmp is a symlink to
> /private/tmp.
>  > Should Ruby care about symlinks?  IMHO, it should work whether or not
> it is a symlink or not.
>
> That's not Ruby's fault - it's the way filesystems work on Unix.

<snip>

No, it's because of this line in find.rb:

if File.lstat(file).directory? then

Since File.lstat reports on the symlink itself, and a symlink isn't a
directory, it never enters this block.

Changing it to just File.stat would make it behave as the OP expected.
Whether or not this is what it ought to do in the first place is
debatable.

If nothing else we should add a note in the documentation about
symlinks.

Regards,

Dan