TFileSearcher.CircularLinkdetection property
Enables or disables detection of circular references when resolving symbolic links.
Declaration
property CircularLinkdetection: Boolean read FCircularLinkdetection write FCircularLinkdetection default False;Description
The value in CircularLinkDetection is used, along with
FollowSymLink, in the Search method. They control whether a file is a symbol
link in a directory which has already been visited in the method.
When CircularLinkDetection and FollowSymLink are enabled, an internal hash of processed directory names is maintained in the method. If a file is encountered which resolves to one the already processed directories, it is not processed in the Search method.
The default value for the CircularLinkDetection property is False, and disables circular link detection.
Added in LazUtils version 4.0.
See also
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