[Haskell-cafe] dangling symbolic links

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Aug 28, at 0:46, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> I think I've exhausted my options without catching exceptions.
>
> If I have an invalid symbolic link, how can I identify that it exists?


getSymbolicLinkStatus vs. getFileStatus?  The former will return if  
the link exists, the latter if its target does.  (Where not returning  
means throwing an exception in IO.)

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