Patch for rdoc to deal with symbolic links

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The first will return “link” when rel_file_name is linked to a file,
the second will return “file”.

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*** rdoc/rdoc.rb.orig Thu Jul 17 11:01:43 2003
— rdoc/rdoc.rb Thu Jul 17 11:08:34 2003

*** 118,124 ****

    relative_files.each do |rel_file_name|

! case type = File.ftype(rel_file_name)
when “file”
file_list << rel_file_name
when “directory”
— 118,124 ----

    relative_files.each do |rel_file_name|

! case type = File.stat(rel_file_name).ftype
when “file”
file_list << rel_file_name
when “directory”

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James F. Hranicky wrote:

The first will return “link” when rel_file_name is linked to a file,
the second will return “file”.

Thanks (I hadn’t realized that File.ftype etc use lstat internally)

Dave