119989 - nsDirectoryIndexStream improvements

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

When enumerating over a directory, some of the files may be links.  If they are,
and you try to resolve them, their target may be gone.  I that happens a
NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST is returned.  These files should still be
treated as symlinks, just broken ones.  Maybe we should use "strike-out" text.

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Preferably (as we are soon switching to HTML listings for file: to my
understanding), we should just show the equivilent of "ls -l". These problems
have all already been solved. Let's present them in the same way, instead of
making up silly new things like strike-through and being a file manager.

This also lets you see user/group owners, permissions, and other useful
information, just as a user expects it. Windows file: could format it just as
'dir' would. Hyperlink the directories and you're done.

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I wouldn't mind seeing ls -al output when I go to a file url.  

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I won't object to a new type. You will need to update the XUL viewer if we're
not chucking it, though. (oneliner in the css, probably)

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.