fs.stat('symlink').isSymbolicLink() returns false

[rentzsch]

# touch myfile
# ln -s myfile mylink
# ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-05-15 10:40 myfile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2010-05-15 10:40 mylink -> myfile
# node-repl
node> require('fs').statSync('mylink').isSymbolicLink();
false
node> require('fs').stat('mylink',function(err,stat){sys.puts(stat.isSymbolicLink());});
node> false

Reproduced on Linux (Debian 5 Lenny) and Mac OS X (10.6.3) against node v0.1.95.

[ry]

Use lstat

[rentzsch]

ah, yeah the works. Here's a patch for the docs: http://github.com/rentzsch/node/commit/afff9ff52e4c76415ca11732e3d98956d57153d8