Re: Two NSFileManager questions

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2006-03-09 10:55:20 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 8 Mar 2006, at 13:32, Enrico Sersale wrote:
>
> > 2) I can't find a way to remove broken symlinks; - removeFileAtPath:: 
> > doesn't work in this case.
>
> I can't see why this shouldn't work for you ... the code looks OK and  the 
> method works fine for me.

This was a GWorkspace bug; fixed. I was assuming that -fileExistsAtPath: 
doesn't traverse the link but refers to the symbolic link itself.

> However, when I tried using GWorkspace to delete a symbolic link (or  indeed 
> any file) ... something I don't ever normally do, the file  deletion itsself 
> works fine but GWorkspace immediately crashes during  a thread exit.  Does 
> anyone else get this, or is it just me?  I guess  it could be a problem with 
> running 64bit code, since my system is  unusual in that respect.

This should not happen... Does GWorkspace crash only deleting or with all the 
file operations?
Perhaps a gdb backtrace could help me.