You need to use getSymbolicLinkStatus instead of getFileStatus, which always follows symbolic links (I guess getSymbolicLinkStatus uses the stat system call, while getSymbolicLinkStatus uses lstat). -- Sebastien On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:24:08PM +0100, Johannes Goetz wrote:

Hi! Sorry for posting this message twice. Last message had wrong subject.

Calling isSymbolicLink always returns False... (ghc-6.0.1linux binary tarball) It doesn't make a difference whether the symbolic link points to a regular file or a directory. Test code:

#ln -s test link #ghc Test.hs -o test #./test False #

Test.hs:

module Main(main) where import System.Posix main = do status <- getFileStatus "link" print (isSymbolicLink status)

Johannes

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