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java - determining if a file is a link

Title says it all.

How do you do it, or is it even possible?

I suppose you could fiddle with getCanonicalWhatever and the original path, but that's messy and I don't like it. Please include a definitive reason if you suggest it.

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See the article How to deal with filesystem softlinks/symbolic links in Java

In short, wait until Java 7 or do a little JNI method

Ulf Lindback  2008-11-24 18:42:13
Interesting article!
André  2008-11-24 19:10:12
Had to do the JNI method myself, around 2001 - been there, done that, have the code around here somewhere...
Ken Gentle  2008-11-25 01:29:27

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