On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > when I do from perl > @f = stat "f"; > @sl2f = stat "sl2f"; > I always get the same contents in @sl2f as in @f, i.e stat follows the link. > Thus I cannot decide via stat, > whether the file in question is a symlink or a not. Use lstat(). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]