Method isNormal

src/fileaccess.cpp:584–622

}

bool FileAccess::isNormal() const
{
    static quint32 depth = 0;
    /*
        Speed is important here isNormal is called for every file during directory
        comparison. It can therefor have great impact on overall performance.

        We also need to insure that we don't keep looking indefinitely when following
        links that point to links. Therefore we hard cap at 15 such links in a chain
        and make sure we don't cycle back to something we already saw.
    */
    if(!mVisited && depth < 15 && isLocal() && isSymLink())
    {
        /*
            wierd psudo-name created from commandline input redirection from output of another command.
            KIO/Qt does not handle it as a normal file but presents it as such.
        */
        if(m_linkTarget.startsWith("pipe:"))
        {
            return false;
        }

        FileAccess target(m_linkTarget);

        mVisited = true;
        ++depth;
        /*
            Catch local links to special files. '/dev' has many of these.
        */
        bool result = target.isNormal();
        // mVisited has done its job and should be reset here.
        mVisited = false;
        --depth;

        return result;
    }

    return !exists() || isFile() || isDir() || isSymLink();
}

bool FileAccess::isFile() const
{