From: robertlaferla@...
Date: 2007-03-27T06:18:22+09:00
Subject: Find.find() doesn't work with broken symlinks

Find.find() seems to filter out broken symlinks.  I was hoping to use it to get a recursive list of files in directory so I could run various tests on each file (like whether or not a symlink points to a valid file)  

What can I use instead of Find.find()?  Is there a better way?

   def testsymlinks(srcpath)
      Find.find(srcpath) do |path|
         if File.symlink?(path)
            begin
               File.stat(path)
			rescue Exception => e
               $stderr.puts "The symlink " + path + " does not point to a valid file.  Please check that you have all your network volumes mounted."
               exit(-1)
            end
         end
      end
   end