How do I avoid symlinks using an Ant FileSet?

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Published on 2011-01-06T21:30:00Z Indexed on 2011/01/07 6:54 UTC
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I have a directory tree that includes a symlink to . (the current directory). When I attempt to iterate over this using an Ant FileSet, I get the following error:

Caught error while checking for symbolic links
 at org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner.causesIllegalSymlinkLoop(DirectoryScanner.java:1859)

The code that I am using to generate the scanner is:

FileSet files = new FileSet();
Project project = new Project();
project.setBasedir( dir );
files.setProject( project );
files.setDir( project.getBaseDir() );

files.getDirectoryScanner().setFollowSymlinks( false );

for( Iterator iter = files.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {}

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