105969 - Open File & Save As do not follow symbolic links to directories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92329

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Aaron Swank]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012
BuildID:    2001101202

After Mozilla 93 (ie tested in Mozilla 94 and 95), the Open File, and Save as
functions will not follow hard symbolic links (ln -s) to other directories. 
This once worked in Mozilla 93 and prior, but stopped working in Mozilla 94 and
95.  Example:  If I ln -s ExistingDir LinkName
 and then double click on LinkName in the Save As / Open File Dialog, the link
is not followed, and the request appears to be ignored.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.ln -s ExistingDirectory LinkName
2.File -> Open File OR Save As..
3.Double Click LinkName
4.Link is not followed

Actual Results:  Nothing Happens.  That is after double clicking on the symbolic
link, the dialog does not follow the link, and does not decend into the linked
directory.  ie, the dialog remains in the directory where the symbolic link was
created.

Expected Results:  As in Mozilla 93 and prior, Mozilla should have decended into
the linked directory, and listed the directory contents of ExistingDirectory.

I have tried different forms of links with full, and relative paths, on the same
partition, and on different partitions, with the same results.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "GetTarget doesn't handle relative symlinks[FIX][PATCH]"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92329 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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