How do you do it, or is it even possible?
I suppose you could fiddle with getCanonicalWhatever and the original path, but that’s messy and I don’t like it. Please include a definitive reason if you suggest it.
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How do you do it, or is it even possible?
I suppose you could fiddle with getCanonicalWhatever and the original path, but that’s messy and I don’t like it. Please include a definitive reason if you suggest it.
See the article How to deal with filesystem softlinks/symbolic links in Java
In short, wait until Java 7 or do a little JNI method