https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314 Matej Horvath changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314#c2 Federico Mena Quintero changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Federico Mena Quintero 2007-10-19 19:09:53 MST --- Yeah, this is done so that pwd -> gives "/home/federico" mkdir foo mkdir foo/bar ln -s foo/bar baz cd baz pwd -> gives "baz" cd .. pwd -> gives "/home/federico" Instead of cd .. pwd -> gives "foo" -> "what the hell!?" I.e. so that changing directories across symlinks doesn't confuse the user. See http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2004-08.html#10 for a comment about this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314#c4 Federico Mena Quintero changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |casualprogrammer@yahoo.com --- Comment #4 from Federico Mena Quintero 2007-10-30 21:52:47 MST --- Hmm, maybe we are talking about different things :) If I do this as you suggested: mkdir foo cd foo ln -s ../foo foo Then I visit the first "foo" in Nautilus. Then, every time I double-click on the "foo" entry, I get one "foo" button appended to the path bar in the Nautilus window (that's the bar of buttons that lets you change to any directory from / up to $cwd). Then you mention /boot/boot, which is a symlink to ".". This has the same behavior as the case above. Nautilus makes both cases work in the same way, so that hitting the "Up" command in the toolbar is equivalent to going up one level in the path bar. That is, the "Up" command will take you to "parent" of the symlink, rather than "cd ..", which will take you to the real parent in the file system. What's the problem with this? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314 Federico Mena Quintero changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314 User federico@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334314#c7 --- Comment #7 from Federico Mena Quintero 2009-01-14 13:54:27 MST --- The easy way to solve this is to canonicalize each path before switching directories, so that there are no symlinks in the path. However, this has other problems. Say an admin symlinks /home to /mnt/hugedisk/user-homes. Now you go to $HOME and you get an ugly pathname in the path bar. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.