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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libstd/fs.rs | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/fs.rs b/src/libstd/fs.rs index 41934dc057e..898ca55f2fe 100644 --- a/src/libstd/fs.rs +++ b/src/libstd/fs.rs @@ -975,13 +975,18 @@ impl FileType { /// Test whether this file type represents a symbolic link. /// + /// The Metadata struct needs to be retreived with + /// fs::symlink_metadata() not fs::metadata(). metadata() + /// always follows symbolic links, so is_symlink will + /// always return false for the underlying file. + /// /// # Examples /// /// ``` /// # fn foo() -> std::io::Result<()> { /// use std::fs; /// - /// let metadata = try!(fs::metadata("foo.txt")); + /// let metadata = try!(fs::symlink_metadata("foo.txt")); /// let file_type = metadata.file_type(); /// /// assert_eq!(file_type.is_symlink(), false); |