On 2008 Aug 28, at 0:46, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
I think I've exhausted my options without catching exceptions.
If I have an invalid symbolic link, how can I identify that it exists?
getSymbolicLinkStatus vs. getFileStatus? The former will return if
the link exists, the latter if its target does. (Where not returning
means throwing an exception in IO.)
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