I see. That is how factor distinguishes stat and lstat :) Thanks. Now I can try out the process on a folder with many subfolders and with millions of files. [ I wish in factor, there is a facility to make an iterator type of object out of dirent. ]
--HP On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Doug Coleman <doug.cole...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can do link-info instead. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 13:42 HP wei <hpwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> While trying out the word each-file, I bumped into presumably >> a bug in >> >> file-info ( path -- info ) >> >> Under linux, >> if the path is a softlink (symbolic link), >> >> path file-info symbolic-link? >> >> gives 'f' ---- and this is wrong. >> >> I looked at the implementation of file-info >> and saw that it calls file-status which in turn calls >> stat-func. >> The latter calls __xstat64 ---- this seems to be related to stat >> function. >> >> Under linux, there are two functions that returns the stat-structure. >> One is stat, the other lstat. >> If a path is a symbolic link, >> It is lstat that will return info about the link. >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> >> As a result of this 'bug', the following (as suggested by John the other >> day) >> could not do what is intended (to get the size of a folder). >> >> 0 a_path_to_folder t [ file-info dup symbolic-link? [ drop ] [ size>> + ] >> if ] each-file >> >> >> --HP Wei >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > >
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