#8321: Symbolic link is followed when replacing a file! ----------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: Pete | Owner: nobody Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Applications | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All ----------------------------+---------------------------- Changes (by bonefish): * owner: axeld => nobody * component: Kits/Storage Kit => Applications Comment: This really doesn't have anything to do with the storage kit. `BFilePanel` is in libtracker, if that's what you're thinking of. I don't find your proposed text helpful at all, though. I believe the expected "Save as" logic is rather obvious: The application should replace the entry that the user selected, regardless of whether it is a symlink or a file. I would only change the file panel's alert text to use more correct phrasing in case of a symlink and maybe -- the phrasing in my earlier comment might have been misunderstandable -- add a third option to the alert to overwrite the file (i.e. there would be three instead of two options: "Cancel", "Overwrite symlink", "Overwrite file"). I'm not sure, if this is really necessary, though, since -- as written above -- I would find the obvious behavior to replace the symlink (why choose the symlink when you want to replace the referred to file?). The "Save" behavior in case of opening a symlink is obvious, too: The actually opened file should be replaced. Actually the application should already explicitly resolve the symlink when opening (which would also be reflected in the document file path (e.g. in the window title)), so this isn't even a special case when saving. In either case the application should use the safe method of saving: save in new file + remove old file + rename new file. In the "Save" case attributes need to be preserved (i.e. copied), which is where Pe apparently misbehaves a bit. Changing the component to "Applications", since that's where the main changes need to happen. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8321#comment:8> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.