How to get java to recognize symbolic links under cygwin
- by Keith Randall
Here's a very simple java program to print the first line of a file:
import java.io.*
public class test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
System.out.print(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(args[0])).readLine());
}
}
When I run this program under cygwin and pass it the name of a symbolic link, it prints the contents of the symbolic link, not the target of that link:
$ echo foo > testfile
$ ln -s testfile symlink_to_testfile
$ java test testfile
foo
$ java test symlink_to_testfile
!<symlink> ?t e s t f i l e
How do I convince java to follow the symlink? I was hoping there was something simpler than implementing the redirect myself.
