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