Find.find() doesn't work with broken symlinks

Find.find() seems to filter out broken symlinks. I was hoping to use it to get a recursive list of files in directory so I could run various tests on each file (like whether or not a symlink points to a valid file)

What can I use instead of Find.find()? Is there a better way?

   def testsymlinks(srcpath)
      Find.find(srcpath) do |path|
         if File.symlink?(path)
            begin
               File.stat(path)
      rescue Exception => e
               $stderr.puts "The symlink " + path + " does not point to a valid file. Please check that you have all your network volumes mounted."
               exit(-1)
            end
         end
      end
   end

Is there a Rails specific list? I tried subscribing to '
rails@lists.rubyonrails.org' but haven't been able to get a response.

- chopper

Alle lunedì 26 marzo 2007, robertlaferla@comcast.net ha scritto:

Find.find() seems to filter out broken symlinks. I was hoping to use it to
get a recursive list of files in directory so I could run various tests on
each file (like whether or not a symlink points to a valid file)

What can I use instead of Find.find()? Is there a better way?

   def testsymlinks(srcpath)
      Find.find(srcpath) do |path|
         if File.symlink?(path)
            begin
               File.stat(path)
      rescue Exception => e
               $stderr.puts "The symlink " + path + " does not point to a
valid file. Please check that you have all your network volumes mounted."
exit(-1)
            end
         end
      end
   end

Are you sure of this? I tried a small setup (made a directory, created a file
and made a symlink to it, then removed the file) and it works. Find.find
passes the broken symlink to the block and File.stat raises a SystemCall
error (Errno::ENOENT). I'm running ruby 1.8.6 on gentoo linux.

Stefano

chopper wrote:

Is there a Rails specific list? I tried subscribing to '
rails@lists.rubyonrails.org' but haven't been able to get a response.

- chopper

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