{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/368","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/368/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/368/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/368/events","html_url":"https://github.com/filerjs/filer/issues/368","id":119247691,"number":368,"title":"stats.isSymbolicLink() resturns false","user":{"login":"livep2000","id":2779309,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2779309?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000","html_url":"https://github.com/livep2000","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/livep2000/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-11-27T21:22:35Z","updated_at":"2015-11-27T23:34:43Z","closed_at":"2015-11-27T23:34:43Z","body":"Great work, building an online OS ontop of it.\r\nOne part of it: an backup & restore utillity for Filer.\r\n\r\nWhile traversing the directories and files to pack them, the type is stored as JSON.\r\nHitting a symbolic link with 'stat' the isSymbolicLink() function returns false.\r\nAnd the type value holds 'FILE'.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/comments/160227049","html_url":"https://github.com/filerjs/filer/issues/368#issuecomment-160227049","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/filerjs/filer/issues/368","id":160227049,"user":{"login":"modeswitch","id":304186,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/304186?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch","html_url":"https://github.com/modeswitch","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/modeswitch/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-27T23:34:43Z","updated_at":"2015-11-27T23:34:43Z","body":"The behavior for `stat` on symbolic links is to return information about the file referred to by the link. To get information about symbolic link itself, you need to use `lstat` instead."}}