Re: Bug 702301 - Symlinks are being expanded

[Stefan Dröge <stefand986 gmail com>]

The patch which caused the problem was reverted. Thank you so much
Cosimo for the quick reaction!

- Stefan

2014-05-12 23:53 GMT+02:00 Martin Habovštiak <martin habovstiak gmail com>:
> I agree with you, symlinks should NOT be dereferenced.
> BTW I'm wondering if circular symlinks are still crashing nautilus. (I
> remember time when they did and it's still present in Caja - fork of
> Nautilus)
>
>
> 2014-05-12 23:24 GMT+02:00 Stefan Dröge <stefand986 gmail com>:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'd like to discuss the bug which is described here:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702301
> > and here:
> >
> > http://askubuntu.com/questions/280431/how-can-i-stop-nautilus-from-dereferencing-symlinks
> >
> > The bug is still unfixed in 3.10.1 (on Ubuntu 14.04) and is very
> > annoying, and against common Linux symlink behaviour.
> > There doesn't seem to be very much interest in the bug by the
> > developers, even the status is still "UNCONFIRMED". Whats the reason
> > for that?
> >
> > I also read Bug 686465. But this is not a bug but the "fix" produces
> > new more dangerous problems (besides being annoying). This becomes
> > clear when you consider the following case:
> > 1. A file "usersfile.txt", owned by "user" contained in a folder
> > "rootsfolder" owned by "root".
> > 2. A symlink "linktousersfile.txt" to "rootsfolder/usersfile.txt". The
> > symlink sits in a folder owned by user.
> > 3. Using Nautilus (with "Bug" 686465 fixed) opening the file in a text
> > editor it is impossible to save a backup file, because "user" has not
> > the permission to create "rootsfolder/usersfile.txt~".
> >
> > Besides not beeing the standard Linux/Unix way how symlinks are
> > treated, the above described situation just makes it worse: There will
> > be no backup of file "usersfile.txt" at all!!
> >
> > Moreover how backup files are named and where they are placed depends
> > on the application which is used. Nautilus should not need to care
> > about that.
> >
> > Please comment
> >
> > - Stefan
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