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Bug 774371 - Cannot save to symlinked gvfs mount
Cannot save to symlinked gvfs mount
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 768281
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: general
1.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-11-13 19:39 UTC by Brian
Modified: 2016-11-14 08:17 UTC
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Description Brian 2016-11-13 19:39:11 UTC 
Downstream gtksourceview bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774303

gvfs version: 1.28.2-1ubuntu2

I was told this was probably a gvfs bug, so here goes:

I have a symlink (/home/mscdex/sftp_mounts/) that points to /run/user/1000/gvfs/ for convenience. However, when I try to save a file (in meld in my case) to an sftp mount using that symlink, I get an error:

g-io-error-quark: Error opening file '/home/mscdex/sftp_mounts/sftp:host=somehost/path/to/file/being/saved': Operation not supported (15)

If I instead open meld with the direct /run/user/1000/gvfs/... paths, then it works just fine. I should also note that the command line gvfs-save program works just fine with or without the symlink.
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2016-11-14 08:17:24 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 768281 ***