Re: automatic symlink maintenance

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>]

Enrico Weigelt said:     (by the date of Sat, 3 Jan 2009 16:56:24 +0100)

> * Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl> schrieb:
> > > > * Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl> schrieb:
> > > > Would you be so kind to consider my feature request?
> > > >
> > > >  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2008-November/msg00003.html  
> > > 
> > > IMHO, such a feature clearly doesn't belong into mc itself - it's 
> > > a filesystem issue ;-P
> > 
> > You are right! Thanks, it never occurred to me. I'm going to ask ext3
> > developers about that.
> 
> Filesystem doesnt necessarily mean disk-filesystem. 
> It's a job for some overlaying FS. 
> (9P is your friend ;-P)

I checked 9P. It's a nice stuff, but in reality I don't see it in
near future on my stock debian testing desktop. To the contrary
patching mc to add this feature is quite possible and much simpler,
from my standpoint.

It's just a simple "symlink tracking" it can't be *that* difficult...

Maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to produce a patch for that, together
with a friend of mine, would you guys be willing to add such a patch
to the trunk?


PS: I'm very happy to see mc development flourishing again!
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Janek Kozicki                                                         |