Add a 'target' field for symlinkattributes.

It returns the resolved path of the symlink.

Original version by Hisham <hisham@gobolinux.org>, modified to
use a different strategy for sizing the readlink() buffer.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/us/manual.html b/doc/us/manual.html
index f5fbaf6..0ecb625 100644
--- a/doc/us/manual.html
+++ b/doc/us/manual.html
@@ -242,6 +242,8 @@ LuaFileSystem offers the following functions:
     <dt><a name="symlinkattributes"></a><strong><code>lfs.symlinkattributes (filepath [, aname])</code></strong></dt>
     <dd>Identical to <a href="#attributes">lfs.attributes</a> except that
     it obtains information about the link itself (not the file it refers to).
+    It also adds a <strong><code>target</code></strong> field, containing
+    the file name that the symlink points to.
     On Windows this function does not yet support links, and is identical to
     <code>lfs.attributes</code>.
     </dd>