Re: [Tracker] trackerd looses its time with symlinks

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Laurent Aguerreche wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> trackerd is currently following symlinks to find new contents. Now,
> imagine a symlink in a directory that points to $HOME. It seems that
> trackerd follows this link and try to re-index all the files in $HOME. I
> see things like:
>
> /home/laurent/MS-Windows/windows/profiles/laurent/Ma
> musique/Stage-labo/XM/xml/obj
>
> where directory Stage-labo/ is in $HOME, with a "SelectPendingByUri"
> action...
>
>
> If this assumption is true, then trackerd tries to index my home
> directory at least 5 times on my computer!
>
> I don't know what to do...

I do - we need to use both stat and lstat so that we index linked files 
but not follow symlink directories

I will fix this - dont panic!

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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