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Bug 672219 - GFileEnumerator return wrong file type for symlinked directories on NTFS volumes
GFileEnumerator return wrong file type for symlinked directories on NTFS volumes
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gio
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-03-16 10:30 UTC by Stefano Facchini
Modified: 2018-05-24 13:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
localfileenumerator: don't trust readdir() when reports DT_DIR (836 bytes, patch)
2012-03-16 10:44 UTC, Stefano Facchini 		none Details | Review
workaround (838 bytes, patch)
2012-03-16 10:57 UTC, Stefano Facchini 		none Details | Review

Description Stefano Facchini 2012-03-16 10:30:21 UTC 
After commit 8863071b9d17fa37036549b8c6579736d259a9cd GFileEnumerator uses readdir() calls (when available, e.g. under linux), to obtain file type info. This does not always work for files on NTFS volumes. Namely, a symlink to a directory is reported as a normal directory, even with G_FILE_QUERY_INFO_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS flag.
Comment 1 Stefano Facchini 2012-03-16 10:44:02 UTC 
Created attachment 209913 [details] [review]
localfileenumerator: don't trust readdir() when reports DT_DIR

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In case it is decided that this is not a NOTGNOME, a possible workaround
is not trusting the readdir() result "DT_DIR"
Comment 2 Stefano Facchini 2012-03-16 10:57:52 UTC 
Created attachment 209918 [details] [review]
workaround

If it is decided that this is not a NOTGNOME, a possible workaround is not trusting the readdir() result "DT_DIR"
Comment 3 Benjamin Otte (Company) 2012-03-16 13:52:21 UTC 
Isn't that a bug in the NTFS implementation of your kernel of choice rather than a bug in gio?
Comment 4 Erik van Pienbroek 2012-08-18 12:58:12 UTC 
I just did some more research and it indeed is a bug in ntfs-3g.
I filed this bug upstream along with a simple testcase and they have already created a fix for it. When applied this issue is resolved automatically by it.

Upstream bugreport with patch: http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29578
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 13:51:07 UTC 
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