271480 - attach symlink will be named like the target not like the name of the symlink itself

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Alexander Sack]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2)

If you select a symlink to attach, the link targets name is used as the filename.

Maybe this behaviour is related to #247792

For more detailed info see the debian bug report:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278992

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a message
2. attach file ...
3. select a symlink

Actual Results:  
the attachment name is the name of the link target

Expected Results:  
the expected name would be the symlinks name

Comment 1

[Tim]

This would be more related to bug 208739 (bug 247792 is probably another result
of that bug).

Not confirming, since I don't have tbird (though I am pretty sure it really
happens, I'll leave confirmation to a tbird triager).

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Comment 3

[Alexander Sack]

Someone with proper permissions non windows, please confirm this behaviour.
Don't see how to add more info.

Comment 4

[samuel]

Yep.. Definitely happens as advertised:

bash: ln -s xine.out.wav symlink

attach -> symlink

attachment pane shows: zine.out.wave

I think that the issue is that 'normalize' should not resolve a terminal symlink (or, at least, not if that terminal symlink is to a real file or application)

Comment 5

[Alexander Sack]

confirming.

Comment 6

[Alexander Sack]

Would modifying normalize method as described in #4 have any bad side effects? Otherwise, I would take a look at it.