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Bug 55239 - Fix symlink/NautilusLink support
Fix symlink/NautilusLink support
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 44554
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Ian McKellar
Ian McKellar
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-05-26 00:00 UTC by Ian McKellar
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Ian McKellar 2001-05-26 00:00:03 UTC 
Symlink support sucks right now. Mostly the fact that you can't use
absolute URIs. The symlink_name field in GnomeVFSFileInfo needs to be
redefined to allow absolute URIs.
Comment 1 Seth Nickell 2001-05-27 21:47:30 UTC 
More difficult is figuring out how we intend to store these
on-filesystem. It seems like we have a few different approaches:

- Move NautilusLinks or some such ilk into GnomeVFS
- Use metadata annotations to a "plain" file (requires metadata of course)
- SATAN: put URIs in the symlink field (works on ext2, probably not
some other systems)
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2001-10-07 10:48:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44554 ***