Re: How to detect symlinks?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek@gmail.com> writes:
> It's more-or-less documented, but the docs really don't explain if the
> string "link" refers to hard or symbolic links, or that it only works
> with symlinkattributes.

With unix-style hardlinks, it's literally impossible to distinguish a
"hardlink" from the linked-to object, so it _must_ refer to
symlinks...  :]

-miles

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