[luatex] readlink?

[Hans Hagen]

On 1-3-2010 19:59, Elie Roux wrote:
> Khaled Hosny a écrit :
>> I'm not sure if I understand this, but aren't symlinks filesystem rather
>> than OS specific (i.e. no symlinks on FAT but symlinks on ISO 9660
>> filesystems, no matter what OS you are running)?
>
> Yes, but I don't think Windows can do symlinks, even with drivers for a
> symlinkable filesystem... anyways, having the same check as
> lfs.symlinkattributes has would be OK I guess...

ntfs has links and if i remember right in the beginning of luatex we had 
do patch the lfs library (of that time) to deal with it in order to get 
the right attributes.

Hans

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