yes it is.
but you can create an FFI function to http://linux.die.net/man/2/readlink to get that :)

Esteban

> On 20 Apr 2016, at 18:11, Damien Cassou <Damien.Cassou@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> it has it.
>> this is how is done in mac:
>>
>> *isSymlink�� �� �� �� = [[fileAttributes objectForKey: NSFileType] isEqualToString: NSFileTypeSymbolicLink] ? 1 : 0;
>>
>> and this how is done in linux:
>>
>> stat(unixPath, &statBuf) && lstat(unixPath, &statBuf)
>> ...
>> *isSymlink = S_ISLNK(statBuf.st_mode);
>>
>> ��� and in windows is always false.
>
> ok for isSymlink, but how do you get to the file pointed to by the
> symlink? Damien says it's impossible with current FilePlugin.
>
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