[Qt-interest] Symbolic link real value?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Lukas Lipavsky<llipavsky at suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to get the path symlink (in linux) is pointing to? But
> I need the real value - e.g. '../../dir/file'
>
> All I found so far was QFileInfo::symLinkTarget() but it returns
> *absolute* path, which is useless for me.
>
> Is there any way to get this information from the Qt library (better
> than calling ls)?

Use QDir::relativeFilePath with the current directory (QDir::current() )

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qdir.html#relativeFilePath
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qdir.html#current

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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