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NAME

Win32::Shortcut::Readlink - Make readlink work with shortcuts

VERSION

version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

use Win32::Shortcut::Readlink;

my $target = readlink "c:\\users\\foo\\Desktop\\Application.lnk";

DESCRIPTION

This module overloads the perl built-in function readlink so that it will treat shortcuts like pseudo symlinks on cygwin and MSWin32. This module doesn't do anything on any other platform, so you are free to make this a dependency, even if your module or script is going to run on non-Windows platforms.

This module adjusts the behavior of readlink ONLY in the calling module, so you shouldn't have to worry about breaking other modules that depend on the more traditional behavior.

FUNCTION

my $target = readlink EXPR
my $target = readlink

Returns the value of a symbolic link or the target of the shortcut on Windows, if either symbolic links are implemented or if shortcuts are. If not, raises an exception. If there is a system error, returns the undefined value and sets $! (errno). If EXPR is omitted, uses $_.

CAVEATS

Does not handle Unicode. Patches welcome.

Before Perl 5.16, CORE functions could not be aliased, and you will see warnings on Perl 5.14 and earlier if you pass undef in as the argument to readlink, even if you have warnings turned off. The work around is to make sure that you never pass undef to readlink on Perl 5.14 or earlier.

Perl 5.8.x is somewhat supported. The use of implicit $_ with readlink in Perl 5.8.x is not supported and will throw an exception. It is recommended that you either upgrade to at least Perl 5.10 or pass an explicit argument of readlink when using this module.

SEE ALSO

Win32::Shortcut
Win32::Unicode::Shortcut

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.