1145885 - OS.File.stat isSymlink made with OS.File.unixSymlink doesnt work

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: OS.File, defect)

Description

[noitidart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150316202753

Steps to reproduce:

On Mac OS X 10.10.1
Open scratchpad, run this code, it creates an alias file on desktop to /application/Firefox.app

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Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/osfile.jsm');
var pathToTarget = OS.Path.join(OS.Constants.Path.macLocalApplicationsDir, 'Firefox.app');
var pathToAlias = OS.Path.join(OS.Constants.Path.desktopDir, 'ff.link'); //extension is .link, the file must not exist or unixErrno 17 ocurs
var promise_alias = OS.File.unixSymLink(pathToTarget, pathToAlias)
promise_alias.then(
  function(aVal) {
    console.log('Promise Fullfilled - promise_alias - ', aVal);
  },
  function(aReason) {
    console.error('Promise Rejected - promise_alias - ', aReason);
  }
);
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Then stat this file and we see that isSymLink returns false:

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Cu.import('resource://gre/modules/osfile.jsm');
var pathToAlias = OS.Path.join(OS.Constants.Path.desktopDir, 'ff.link'); //extension is .link, the file must not exist or unixErrno 17 ocurs
var promise_alias = OS.File.stat(pathToAlias)
promise_alias.then(
  function(aVal) {
    console.log('Promise Fullfilled - promise_alias - ', aVal, 'isSymLink:', aVal.isSymLink);
  },
  function(aReason) {
    console.error('Promise Rejected - promise_alias - ', aReason);
  }
);
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Actual results:

.isSymLink returns false


Expected results:

.isSymLink should return true

Comment 1

[noitidart]

Using nsIFile on the created Alias works succesfully.

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var pathToAlias = OS.Path.join(OS.Constants.Path.desktopDir, 'ff.link');
var nsifile = new FileUtils.File(pathToAlias);
nsifile.isSymlink(); // returns true
nsifile.target; // returns the real target
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Comment 2

[Beth Rennie [:beth] (she/her)]

OSFIle is being replaced with IOUtils and PathUtils.