[fpc-pascal] Handling recursive symlinks in Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, brian wrote:

> I'm trying to convert a Delphi console-mode program which needs to walk 
> directory trees to FP **and Linux** - is there a standard way to detect and 
> handle recursive symlinks, if the user has been daft enough to create them?

You can use faSymLink in FindFirst/FindNext to detect symbolic links (this works on 
windows as well) and then use fpReadLink (unit baseunix) to see where the 
link leads too.

Michael.