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