530188 - Recursing of directory entries somewhere inside a symlink returns files in the target of the link

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This appears to be an OSX problem only and doesn't happen on Linux. If I do the following:

var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath("/var/folders");
var de = file.directoryEntries.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIDirectoryEnumerator);
var newfile = de.nextFile;

where /var is a symlink to /private/var then after running newfile's path is "/private/var/folders/foo" as opposed to "/var/folders/foo" as I'd expect (and as seen on Linux).

This causes all sorts of oddities like newfile.parent != file, etc.

Comment 1

[Josh Aas]

I think this needs to block 2.0, we shouldn't have changed this behavior. This is fixed by the patch on bug 571193.

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

Fixed by the patch on bug 571193.