[erlang-questions] symlink error (I think)

[Joe Armstrong]

I tried this on ubuntu as well:

test() ->
    File = "/home/ejoearm/work/bugs/share",
    {ok, X1} = file:read_file_info(File),
    {ok, X2} = file:read_link_info(File),
    {X1#file_info.type, X2#file_info.type}.

> bug:test().
{directory,symlink}

So read_file_info does follow symlinks. But the man page says it can return
type
symlink. Is this a bug in the manual page? Or have I misunderstood
something.

/Joe





On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Jon Schneider <jon@REDACTED>wrote:

> > I believe file:read_file_info/1,2 will "follow" symlinks and give you
> > information
>
> Clearly there's a job to decide what these functions are _supposed_ to do
> exactly and fix code and documentation.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
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