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Jukka Zitting commented on IO-184:
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What about symlinked paths?

> FileUtils.isAncestor
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-184
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-184
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Utilities
>            Reporter: Yu Kobayashi
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.x
>
>
> Please add FileUtils.isAncestor(). Code is following.
> public static boolean isAncestor(File file, File ancestor) {
>       File f = file;
>       while (f != null) {
>               if (f.equals(ancestor)) return true;
>               f = f.getParentFile();
>       }
>       return false;
> }

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