Re: [Tracker] possible bug? trackerd and device files

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Marcus Fritzsch wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I am currently having chrooted installation inside a tracker-indexed
> directory. The chroot does contain a /dev. The thing I am seeing, is
> trackerd reading from ${chrootdir}/dev/zero like mad ;).
>
> Possible fix to that might be in
>
>     src/trackerd/tracker-utils.c:tracker_file_is_valid
>
> on line 1054, and add
>
>     G_FILE_TEST_IS_REGULAR|G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR|G_FILE_TEST_IS_SYMLINK
>
> to the g_file_test call. Well, that depends on whether directories are
> passed to tracker_file_is_valid.
>
> Can someone confirm this?

yes directories may be passed to it.

Does that fix work for you?


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