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  3. August 2002

RE: CHKOBJ in RPG IV programme

Rod

Symbolic links are not the problem. _Following_ symbolic links when what I
want is to know that the object IS a symbolic link is the problem. In other
words, when I use stat() and test for ISLNK (I think that's the macro), it
is not identified as a link, because the link has been resolved to the
object pointed at. So I needed to use lstat, which does not resolve the link.

Regards

Vern

At 05:44 PM 8/29/02 +1000, you wrote:

-snip-

>In a previous pend you said "The gotcha with stat() is that it follows
>symbolic links - like a shortcut in Windows. " In what way do you see
>symbolic links as a gotcha? Could you elaborate?
>
>Rod Orr

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