Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127612
Nautilus does not refresh directories which are symlinks properly
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:45 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040620 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.
BTW: there is no problem with subdirectories of the symlinked directory, only with the symlink itself.
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.
To some extent, okay. But I won't be able to catch if the symlink is changed to point to something else. Daniel
I confirm this bug with Fam too
The lastest gamin errata in FC3 seems to fix this.