qt-bugs@ issue : N84150

Trolltech task ID : 84207

applied: no

author: dfaure

isSymLink() for a "broken" (dangling) symlink returned true in Qt3.x, but returns false in Qt-4.0.1

Index: qfsfileengine_unix.cpp

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--- src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine_unix.cpp.orig	(revision 452002)

+++ src/corelib/io/qfsfileengine_unix.cpp	(working copy)

@@ -278,7 +278,9 @@

             const QByteArray file = QFile::encodeName(this->file);

             if(QT_LSTAT(file, &st) == 0)

                 that->isSymLink = S_ISLNK(st.st_mode);

-            that->could_stat = !QT_STAT(file, &st);

+            else

+                that->isSymLink = false;

+            that->could_stat = !QT_STAT(file, &st) || that->isSymLink;

         }

     }

     return could_stat;