Filezilla doesn't understand Unix soft link

[Alastair Forsyth]

Further to #4706, I believe than one CAN distinguish between links and files. May I suggest you consult manual for 'find' command? The primary test 'type' covers it.

I have created 2 links, jim and fred. As you can see from the following screen dump file type 'd' designates a directory.

comms:ttyp4 root > l -dog fred jim
drwxrwxr-x 3 37376 Aug 13 11:32 fred@
-rw-r--r-- 1 12 Aug 13 11:48 jim@
comms:ttyp4 root > l -dogWv fred jim
drwxrwxr-x 3 37376 Aug 13 11:32 fred -> ../another_directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 12 Aug 13 11:48 jim -> jim.txt

Once Filezilla has established the Unix type of the resolution file it should be straightforward to recreate the equivalent in Windows.

[Tim Kosse]

Doesn't change the fact that using the FTP protocol there is no way to distinguish between symlinks to files and symlinks to directories and symlinks pointing to nowhere.