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In Linux, if you have a path to a file which you know is a symlink, how do you programmatically determine (in C or C++) the path to the file that it points to?
Maximin asked 17/5, 2011 at 6:0

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I'm running into an issue using xsendfile with my Rails 3 app. I'm using capistrano to manage deployments and in each release, there is a symbolic link to the shared/assets dir (e.g. /var/www/site...
Wira asked 6/4, 2011 at 22:44

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So, I love my Macbook, and she loves me. We have our ups and downs, but for the most part our relationship has been strong. Recently though we had a fight. it started out simply enough. I was askin...
Highpressure asked 2/4, 2011 at 2:13

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From a high-level standpoint (meaning only worrying about the results and the interface, not the implementation), what is the difference in behavior, if any, between an NTFS reparse point tha...
Franklyn asked 8/3, 2011 at 6:27

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Like a lot of web developers, I like to use .htaccess to direct all traffic to a domain through a single point of entry when the request isn't for a file that exists in the publicly served director...
Macrocosm asked 23/3, 2011 at 23:29

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I am on a shared hosting package on a LAMP stack with no shell access. I can create symlinks using PHP's symlink() function. Let's say my web root is /home/www/user1/public Let's say I have a re...
Ianteen asked 7/2, 2010 at 19:56

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Is there a way to make git completely ignore symlinks (leave them in the tree, but not create them on checkout)? Alternatively, is there a way to make git convert between symlinks on linux and shor...
Lampblack asked 4/3, 2011 at 5:47

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Problem: I relied heavily on NTFS Junction points in Windows XP, even though they apparently were not an "official" feature of the operating system. Now MSFT has generously made NTFS Junction point...
Volgograd asked 11/1, 2009 at 7:4

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I have a symbolic link a.c in my home directory to another file in the same directory. a.c -> b.c I know how to check a.c is a symbolic link using the shell script if [ -L /home/nit/a.c ] ; then...
Static asked 30/12, 2010 at 8:37

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How to make a symlink in Java/JVM when running in Linux? Are there any other ways to this than using Java Native Interface (JNI) or java.lang.Runtime.exec("/bin/ln -s /some/path symlink")? Creatin...
Mendoza asked 2/2, 2011 at 7:22

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How do i obtain the relative path from an absolute path, e.g. convert 'C:\absolute\path\file.ext' to 'path'? Thanks for your consideration edit: i'd like to recursivly scan a directory for a cert...
Giguere asked 27/1, 2011 at 12:54

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Does cygwin (1.7.x) understand Windows NTFS junction points (as created by mklink in Win7/2008 or sysinternals' junction.exe)? How do they differ from a symbolic link as created by "ln -s "?
Rickie asked 28/10, 2010 at 13:59

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I have the below code only a part of it is shown here and I am checking if a the type of file. struct stat *buf /* just to show the type buf is*/ switch (buf.st_mode & S_IFMT) { case S_IFBL...
Kozak asked 21/10, 2010 at 6:45

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How do I get this piece to follow symlinks in python 2.6? def load_recursive(self, path): for subdir, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for file in files: if file.endswith('.xml'): file_path = os....
Meditation asked 22/9, 2010 at 16:57

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Normally to change a symlink target one will first unlink the file and then re-creating the symlink with the new target path. However it will be assigned a new inode number. Maybe there is a priva...
Kendricks asked 28/7, 2010 at 0:48

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I'm trying to store all my profile configuration files (~/.xxx) in git. I'm pretty horrible at bash scripting but I imagine this will be pretty straight forward for you scripting gurus. Basically,...
Checkerwork asked 8/8, 2010 at 15:52

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I know it's possible to create a dynamically changable Default.png by creating a symbolic link. But that's not possible in iPhone SDK 3.0 anymore (only in 2.0). How can I make this in 3.0, or is th...
Wiatt asked 24/12, 2009 at 17:16

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As of 0.9.4, when adding a symbolic link Mercurial keeps track of the link itself, and not the file or directories it points to. However, there are cases when it is desirable to keep track of the f...
Middlebrooks asked 25/12, 2009 at 11:27

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I am planning my directory structure for a linux/apache/php web project like this: Only www.example.com/webroot/ will be exposed in apache www.example.com/ webroot/ index.php comp1/ comp2/ c...
Canoe asked 24/5, 2010 at 12:29

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Disregarding my last post, I've found the source of the problem. I'm using a.renameTo(b) when b doesn't exist. The reason it doesn't exist is because there is a symbolic link so if b is /usr/nam...
Dialect asked 6/1, 2010 at 16:50

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I just wanted to clarify if a hard/symbolic link is actually a file that is created ?? I ran the command: ln source hardlink ln -s source softlink -- The ls command shows this 2 links as a file...
Malamute asked 11/5, 2010 at 6:3

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In Ruby, Dir.glob("**/*.rb") (for instance) doesn't traverse symlinked directories. Is it possible to get the ** to traverse symlinks? I'm using two gems which find files this way, but I need them...
Lieutenant asked 10/12, 2008 at 21:55

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Imagine you have an executable foo.rb, with libraries bar.rb layed out in the following manner: <root>/bin/foo.rb <root>/lib/bar.rb In the header of foo.rb you place the following re...
Bona asked 27/11, 2008 at 2:6

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I basically have to write a clone of the UNIX ls command for a class, and I've got almost everything working. One thing I can't seem to figure out how to do is check whether a file is a symbolic li...
Diplopia asked 14/4, 2010 at 8:34

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I have a program which requires the path to various files. The files live in different folders and are constantly updated, at irregular intervals. When the files are updated, they change name, so,...
Clavicle asked 22/1, 2010 at 1:16

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