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 -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list