is a link?

mazsolt

There are some functions, like is_link(), readlink(), linkinfo().
I created in the inetpub/wwwroot directory (IIS 5.0) a shortcut for mysql.exe. Its name is mysql.exe. Now, when I'm testing, if it's a link or not, I receive "it's not a link".

if (is_link("./mysql.exe"))
echo "it's a link";
else
echo "it's not a link";

More than that, if I call the filetype() function, it doesn't display anything.

echo filetype("./mysql.exe");

Can anybody help me? thanks in advance!

mazsolt

sorry, I haven't mentioned, that the symlink() function doesn't work on windows. Are this link-functions only a linux-issue?

bad76

Hi,
in some doc i've found that this function is not implemented on windows...

[edit]
i talking about is_link() too...

mazsolt

thanks a lot, I read the documentation, which doesn't write anything about this functions to be used only on linux. But in the user contributed notes (inside the documentation) somebody wrote, that Windows didn't let him to work with this functions