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From: umueller@iiic.ethz.ch (Urban Dominik Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: How to detect soft and hard links
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Date: 26 Mar 91 00:01:26 GMT
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One example says more than a thousand words:
 
Ram Disk:> makedir bug
Ram Disk:> cd bug
Ram Disk:bug> makelink .. /
Ram Disk:bug> Dir opt a
     .. (dir)
          bug (dir)
               .. (dir)
                    bug (dir)
                         .. (dir)
                              bug (dir)
                                   .. (dir)
 
This is only one of many cases where it would be desirable to detect links.
Is there a way to do so? How can I tell from the FileInfoBlock that a file
or directory is only a link?
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