From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-04-11T07:59:14+09:00
Subject: symlink?  reports false

File.stat(name).symlink? keeps returning false, even though
I do stat on a real symlink file.

Shouldn't symlink? return true in on the 'xyzxyzxyz'.. 
see attached snippet

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Simon Strandgaard

server> ruby a.rb 
filename=/usr/home/neoneye/kode/editor/projects/regexp_engine/test/a.rb
symlink?=false
type=file
#<File::Stat dev=0x413, ino=456591, mode=0100644, nlink=1, uid=1001, gid=1001, rdev=0x1bab02, size=358, blksize=16384, blocks=4, atime=Sun Apr 11 00:51:15 CEST 2004, mtime=Sun Apr 11 00:48:50 CEST 2004, ctime=Sun Apr 11 00:48:50 CEST 2004>
----------------------------------------
filename=xyzxyzxyz
symlink?=false
type=link
#<File::Stat dev=0x413, ino=456591, mode=0100644, nlink=1, uid=1001, gid=1001, rdev=0x1bab02, size=358, blksize=16384, blocks=4, atime=Sun Apr 11 00:51:15 CEST 2004, mtime=Sun Apr 11 00:48:50 CEST 2004, ctime=Sun Apr 11 00:48:50 CEST 2004>
server> expand -t2 a.rb 
require 'fileutils'
def info(name)
  stat = File.stat(name)
  ftype = File.ftype(name)
  issym = File.stat(name).symlink?
  puts "filename=#{name}\nsymlink?=#{issym}\ntype=#{ftype}\n#{stat.inspect}"
end
absname = File.expand_path(__FILE__)
linkname = "xyzxyzxyz"
FileUtils.ln_s(absname, linkname)
info(absname)
puts("-"*40)
info(linkname)
FileUtils.rm(linkname)
server>