[Qt-interest] Symbolic link real value?

[Will Rutherdale (rutherw)]

man -s 3 readlink

The standard solution in any Unix-like system is:

#include <unistd.h>

// ...

ssize_t nbytes = readlink( "location/of/my/symlink", my_buff,
my_buff_size );

-Will


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> Subject: [Qt-interest] Symbolic link real value?
> 
> 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)?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Lukas Lipavsky, QA Developer
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