GetPhysicalFilenameCached function

Declaration

function GetPhysicalFilenameCached(const AFilename: string; 
 EmptyOnError: Boolean): string

Arguments

Function result

Actual file name for the symbolic link or reference.

Description

GetPhysicalFilenameCached is a String function used to get the physical file name for the value specified in AFileName. The return value contains the actual file name for a symbolic link or reference on the local file system.

EmptyOnError indicates that the return value can be an empty string ( '') if AFilename cannot be resolved. When set to False, the original file in AFileName is used as the return value.

GetPhysicalFilenameCached provides two (2) ways to resolve the value in AFilename:

• Calling the GetPhysicalFilenameCached method in the FileStateCache singleton (when assigned). This is the default code path in the routine.
• Calling the GetPhysicalFilename routine.

See also

• GetPhysicalFilenameCached
• GetPhysicalFilename
• FileStateCache