[MCLEAN-58] Maven Clean Plugin ignores followSymLinks parameter on Windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.1
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Sergei Makarov
• Created: 03/Sep/14 08:50
• Updated: 26/Feb/21 16:21
• Resolved: 13/Oct/14 13:46

Description

Most of old java software use getCanonicalFile() to determine symlink. But it is lie for windows. Lets look to org.apache.maven.plugin.clean.Cleaner:

147 File canonical = followSymlinks ? file : file.getCanonicalFile();
148 if ( followSymlinks || file.equals( canonical ) )

getCanonicalFile() returns same path and folow symlink. In attached MavenCleanPluginNoFollowSymlinkBug.zip you found TestCase.bat that shows bug (just read it to understand than run). Unfortunately I know only one way to fix this - move to NIO that has isSymbolicLink() since java 1.7.