479608 - isSymlink from nsIFile allways returns false

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 476919

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Georg Maaß]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7pre) Gecko/2009020611

isSymlink from nsIFile always returns false even on symbolic links.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a nsIFile reresenting a symbolic link like libxpcom.dylib in XUL.frameworks
var f= Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
f.initWithPath('/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/libxpcom.dylib'); 
2. call the isSymlink method of the nsIFile
alert(f.exists()+'\n'+f.isSymlink())
Actual Results:  
actual result of isSymlink always is false but should be true in case of a symbolic link

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Already fixed in 1.9.1 branch and trunk.