Bug 127612 - Nautilus does not refresh directories which are symlinks properly
Summary: Nautilus does not refresh directories which are symlinks properly
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gamin
Version: 3
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Daniel Veillard
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-07-10 22:44 UTC by Carlos Rodrigues
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-03-04 19:41:17 UTC
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Description Carlos Rodrigues 2004-07-10 22:44:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
If I navigate to a directory which is a symlink to another, I can't
see updates to that directory without clicking refresh (when that
exists, because it doesn't exist in spatial mode).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a directory "foo" in your home directory
2.make a symlink to it on the desktop
3.go with nautilus to "foo" using the symlink
4.go with nautilus to "foo" directly (open location or navigating from
"home")
5.open an xterm
6.cd foo; touch bar

    

Actual Results:  After step 6, one sees that window 4. shows "bar"
immediately and 3. does not.


Expected Results:  Both windows should show "bar" immediately.

Additional info:

This also happens when, for instance, clicking a tar.gz in "foo" and
doing "extract here". The files/folders created by file-roller do not
show up until a refresh is done.

Comment 1 Carlos Rodrigues 2004-07-10 22:47:25 UTC
BTW: there is no problem with subdirectories of the symlinked
directory, only with the symlink itself.

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2004-10-05 13:11:52 UTC
Hmm. We're monitoring both directories with. I think this is an actual
bug in gamin. It should probably follow the folder symlink when its
being monitored.

Comment 3 Daniel Veillard 2004-10-05 13:27:48 UTC
To some extent, okay. But I won't be able to catch if the symlink
is changed to point to something else.

Daniel

Comment 4 Frédéric Marchand 2005-03-02 09:58:43 UTC
I confirm this bug with Fam too

Comment 5 Carlos Rodrigues 2005-03-02 14:48:58 UTC
The lastest gamin errata in FC3 seems to fix this.


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