The FS service's LIST DIRECTORY / QUERY ENTRY / GET ENTRY requests "chase
down" the link and provide information about the source of the link (e.g.
type, size, last modified timestamp) by design. Note that if you're
copying a file or directory to a remote machine using a FS COPY request,
you want STAF to copy the file or directory that the link points to, and
not copy a symbolic link to a file that doesn't exist on the remote
machine. Note that on a FS DELETE request, STAF detects if an entry is a
symbolic link, and in that case, only deletes the link and does not chase
down and delete what the link points to.
So, STAF does know if something is a symbolic link or not. It's just not
currently providing that information via the FS service. We could add the
ability for the FS service to show whether an entry is a symbolic link or
not, if this was something you really need.
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"Michael Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[staf-users] Problem with symbolic Links and FS LIST DIRECTORY
Hi,
Unfortunately STAF does not behave just the way I thought it would from
the Documentation:
FS LIST DIRECTORY
Does not recognize symbolic links.
What I did to reproduce the behaviour:
In the directory ~/tmp/fs_demo:
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: mkdir dir.3.1.24
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: ln -s dir.3.1.24/ dir
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: touch file.3.1.24
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: ln -s file.3.1.24 file
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 11 Mar 3 11:08 dir -> dir.3.1.24/
drwx------ 2 user group 4096 Mar 3 11:08 dir.3.1.24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 11 Mar 3 11:09 file -> file.3.1.24
-rw------- 1 user group 0 Mar 3 11:08 file.3.1.24
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: STAF local FS LIST DIRECTORY ~/tmp/fs_demo LONG
TYPE L
Response
--------
[sowso221]~/tmp/fs_demo: STAF local FS LIST DIRECTORY ~/tmp/fs_demo LONG
Response
--------
Type Size Modified Date-Time Name
---- ---- ------------------ -----------
D 4096 20080303-11:08:24 dir.3.1.24
D 4096 20080303-11:08:24 dir
F 0 20080303-11:08:56 file.3.1.24
F 0 20080303-11:08:56 file
Am I missing the point or shouldn?t the type of dir and file not be L?
I tried that on linux and solaris both with STAF staf-3.1.3. I cannot
upgrade myself but since I didn?t find anything in the history I assume
this would be the same in newer Versions.
Regards Michael
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