GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 44554
GNOME-VFS symlinks need to support cross-scheme symlinks
Last modified: 2008-09-06 19:17:27 UTC
There should be a mechanism for supporting cross-scheme symlinks ------- Additional Comments From mikef@praxis.etla.net 2000-11-06 14:46:21 ---- Required for features described in 3758 ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-11-06 14:49:42 ---- I made this P2 usable because bug 43758, which depends on it, is marked such. I think bug 43758's priority is debatable, but I won't debate it. ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2000-11-16 23:00:40 ---- I'm not sure this fits the specifications of bug 43758. Bug 43758 suggests that the vault icon should not display a "shortcut" emblem. However, making the link to the vault a symbolic link will cause it to acquire such an emblem. That means we'd have to special case the vault icon anyway. Unless this feature is desirable for something else, I'm guessing it will be simpler to "hack" the vault icon in and add URI link support when we have time to do it right. Also might look at NautilusLinks, not sure how powerful they are right now (see ~/Nautilus). ------- Additional Comments From pavel@eazel.com 2000-12-01 02:12:09 ---- Mike, this is what we talked about and decided a simple, Nautilus-link like solution will be good enough for 1.0, right? If yes, I can downgrade the time estimate. ------- Additional Comments From mikef@praxis.etla.net 2000-12-04 17:27:44 ---- Yeah, I don't need this for 1.0 ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-12-15 02:29:57 ---- NOte that 3758 got moved to post-1.0, meaning this bug too is probably not 1.0-critical. ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2001-07-23 00:34:06 ---- Taking bugs previously assigned to Pavel, assigning them to myself. Will parse them out at my leisure , but many are GnomeVFS bugs we should look at for 2.0 ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-08-26 21:12:34 ---- *** Bug 41392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-08-26 21:26:44 ---- *** Bug 42792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2001-08-27 00:27:14 ---- Current thinking is to implement this as "redirects" not like POSIX symbolic links. Then HTTP redirects will use them. The reason is that otherwise your URL will start with a particular protocol...say http://... and will have to check every element in the path chain to see if its a link and then change protocols if its not. One tiny example of how this is broken is the is_local call will not be correct anymore. ------- Additional Comments From snickell@stanford.edu 2001-08-27 00:33:33 ---- marking this for 2.2, but I suspect it will eventually get punted. We'll see.... ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:45 -------
*** Bug 55239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
MASS CHANGE VFS. Re-assigning bugs that I currently own in VFS to the proper owner (probably Alex).
Seth: Maybe you could describe the "redirects" concept a bit more detailed, especially a possible API. This really sounds interesting.
Hrm I think a flag for the file info could be suited better to flag that the symlink_name refers to an URI. Note that a patch attached to bug 349241 would have to be revised if we support this, i.e. gnome_vfs_find_directory_cancellable semantics would have to be changed (the patch will add a TODO comment).
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