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Bug 743848 - g_file_move: remove G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS section
g_file_move: remove G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS section
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: docs
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-02 12:15 UTC by Ondrej Holy
Modified: 2018-05-24 17:24 UTC
See Also:
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g_file_move: remove G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS from docs (1.20 KB, patch)
2015-02-02 12:15 UTC, Ondrej Holy 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Ondrej Holy 2015-02-02 12:15:45 UTC 
Created attachment 295937 [details] [review]
g_file_move: remove G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS from docs

G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS flag doesn't make sense for move operation, either local implementation doesn't handle this flag in no way. Therefore this paragraph should be removed from the docs (because it was probably copy&pasted from g_file_copy by mistake).
Comment 1 Philip Withnall 2017-10-05 13:59:06 UTC 
Review of attachment 295937 [details] [review]:

This makes sense, but I think G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS *can* affect the behaviour of g_file_move(). If it ends up on its fallback code path which uses g_file_copy()/g_file_delete(), the move flags will be passed almost-unmodified into g_file_copy(), at which point G_FILE_COPY_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS could make a difference. Do we want to mask it out?
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 17:24:34 UTC 
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