From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T06:42:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Find.find() doesn't work with broken symlinks

Alle luned� 26 marzo 2007, robertlaferla@comcast.net ha scritto:
> 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

Are you sure of this? I tried a small setup (made a directory, created a file 
and made a symlink to it, then removed the file) and it works. Find.find 
passes the broken symlink to the block and File.stat raises a SystemCall 
error (Errno::ENOENT). I'm running ruby 1.8.6 on gentoo linux.

Stefano