On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it not costly (as in very costly) to get the canonical path ?
That's what I've been told but I've never measured it. Currently DirectoryScanner avoids looking at the canonical path unless followSymlinks is false. The problem with infinite loops caused by symlinks only happens if followSymlinks is true - so any solution to the problem will make DirectoryScanner look up canonical paths more often and thus probably make scanning slower. > I would be for the lowest tech possible here. All solution offered so far would require DS to know a directory is a link to do anything, which already means getting the canonical path for all directories. But what is the alternative? Allowing Ant to die because of the infinite loop? I thought about adding yet another flag (detectSymlinkLoops?) to enable/disable the check, but what should be the default, save or fast? Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
