[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8321: Symbolic link is followed when replacing a file!
- From: "Pete" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:58:49 -0000
#8321: Symbolic link is followed when replacing a file!
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Reporter: Pete | Owner: korli
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/StyledEdit | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by Pete):
Replying to [comment:4 bonefish]:
> I find the ticket perfectly valid. If the user agrees to replace "foo",
the application should replace "foo", not the file it refers to. The
phrasing in the alert could be more accurate -- referring to "symbolic
link 'foo'" in this case -- and ideally it could even offer an option to
replace the file referred to by the symbolic link. And yes, this should be
fixed in all applications.
OK -- glad that you think it not quite right, too. I don't see it as the
application's job to fix it, though. Shouldn't this be the FilePanel's
responsibility? Having the alert give a choice of replacing either the
link itself or the file it references might be the best route.
> Pe works correctly, BTW (using save as new + remove old + rename, IIRC).
Hadn't tried that (don't have it on my BeOS) but when I looked it has a
glitch or two too! Try this: create, say, a short text "testfile" in one
folder, and create a link to it in another. Then drag that ''link'' onto
Pe. Do a bit of editing and click on 'Save'...
It not only follows the link to change the original file, it sets the type
of that file to be a symbolic link too!! The same happens with 'Save
As...', unless you notice that the specified file type in the popup-menu
is "Symbolic Link" and change it to something sensible; then things behave
as I'd hope: the link gets replaced with the edited file.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8321#comment:5>
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