93970 - File -> Open File does not open symbolic linked directories

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Jim Dunn]

I am running with 0.9.3, Help -> About Mozilla gives me
    Mozilla 0.9.3  
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801

Build ID: 2001080104

I have /builds/jdunn symbolicly linked to /builds/bobo (which
is a directory.

Using File -> Open File, I can browse into /builds/bobo 
HOWEVER if I try to open up /builds/jdunn it never enters
into /builds/bobo directory.

This does NOT happen with my 0.9.2 build.

This fails on both my debug 0.9.3 build and the build that
I downloaded from mozilla.org.

ls -al /builds (gives me the following)
total 28
drwxrwxr-x    4 root     wheel        4096 May 25 11:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x   26 root     root         4096 May 23 12:58 ../
drwxr-xr-x   11 bobo     wheel        4096 Aug  6 13:26 bobo/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 bobo     wheel           4 May 25 11:34 jdunn -> bobo/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Apr 20 20:25 lost+found/

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I believe that this is a file viewer bug.

Comment 2

[John Morrison]

I can't find the dup for this, but I'm sure it is out there. Do you know, 
bryner?

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

--> bryner

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

May God have mercy on us all. The 212 bug spam-o-rama is Now!

Comment 5

[Jason Goodman]

This bug also occurs for File -> Save As (no surprise), and when double-clicking
on a symlinked *file* (not just a directory).  

Interestingly, single-clicking on a symlinked file or directory and then
clicking on "Open"/"Save" works correctly.  This provides a workaround.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 99946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass-moving lower-priority 0.9.5 bugs off to 0.9.6 to make way for remaining
0.9.4/eMojo bugs, and MachV planning, performance and feature work. If you
disagree with any of these targets, please let me know.

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 100121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 100539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[laurel]

*** Bug 102274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Olav Vitters]

*** Bug 104865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

is this bug a dupe of bug 92329 ?

Comment 13

[Andrew Simmonds]

Attachment: patch to fix. ready for review.

Comment 14

[Andrew Simmonds]

Attachment: better patch that just removes problem

Comment 15

[Andrew Simmonds]

okay, the last patch totally fixes the problem for double clicking symlinked
dirs and also fixing double clicking symlinked files.

Comment 16

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 54873 [details] [diff] [review]
better patch that just removes problem

yeah, it looks like the behavior of nsIFile changed at some point and it's now resolving symlinks for us... this does fix the problem, so r=bryner.

Comment 17

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Comment on attachment 54873 [details] [diff] [review]
better patch that just removes problem

sr=[e-mail]

Comment 18

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Checked in, thanks for the patch.

Comment 19

[Joni K]

Still not working... build 2001102706-trunk.

Comment 20

[Joni K]

Does work in 2001102721, so never mind.