[jed-users] Re: Bug report - file handling and symlinks

[Ulli Horlacher <framstag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri 2015-06-19 (12:19), Jason Noakes wrote:

> The root cause is that Jed is compacting "/tmp/jed/a/../../dir" into
> "/tmp/dir" without realizing "/tmp/jed/a" is a symlink (src/file.c,
> src/sysdep.c).

The Linux coreutils have the program "readlink", which gives:

framstag@diaspora:/tmp: readlink -f /tmp/jed/b/foo.txt 
/tmp/jed/dir/foo.txt


Whereas the jed function expand_symlink() gives:

S-Lang> message(expand_symlink("/tmp/jed/b/foo.txt"))
/tmp/dir/foo.txt


A bug, indeed.

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