[Win32utils-devel] File.readlink for Vista?

[Daniel Berger]

Heesob Park wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2008/11/12 Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've implemented File.symlink and File.symlink? in the win32-file library,
>> but I'm not sure how to implement File.readlink. I searched Google for a
>> while but found nothing.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
> Here is File.readlink implementation
> 
> def readlink(file)
>   hFile = CreateFile(file,
>                          GENERIC_READ,
>                          FILE_SHARE_READ,
>                          nil,
>                          OPEN_EXISTING,
>                          FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
>                          nil)
>   path = 0.chr * 256
>   GetFinalPathNameByHandle(hFile,path,256,0)
>   CloseHandle(hFile)
>   path.strip[4..-1]  # get rid of prepending "\\?\"
> end
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Park Heesob

Excellent, thank you!

I've committed to CVS.

Regards,

Dan