93029 - File dialogs easily confused by symlinks.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92329

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[dylang]

Let's say you have a dir
/home/user
They have a subdir
furthersubdir/
Which has another subdir
anothersubdir/

For a complete path of /home/user/furthersubdir/anothersubdir

But the user doesn't like having to type all that in.  So they symlink
/home/user/anothersubdir to /home/user/furthersubdir/anothersubdir (a soft one,
since for the purposes of this contrived example, the furthersubdir is on a
different physical drive/server).

The link is "furthersubdir/anothersubdir/"

The problem comes into play when you browse in the file dialog box.  The top
part will show "furthersubdir/anothersubdir/" .. since it hides .., and does not
get the proper full path into the drop down, you are "trapped" in the subdir
until you type in a new place to save the flie to.

Related to this is how the file dialog adds an extra / to the paths (//home/user
... sigh :p).

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

file dialog: i presume you mean the file picker, ie, the dialog which appears
when you do File > Open File or File > Save As... if so, this is bryner's, i
think [possibly a dup, will search later on].

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

> The link is "furthersubdir/anothersubdir/"

That is a relative link so this looks like you are describing bug 92329
"GetTarget doesn't handle relative symlinks"

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

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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