Bug 405 – fam follows symbolic links when monitoring a directory

Bug 405 - fam follows symbolic links when monitoring a directory


Summary:	fam follows symbolic links when monitoring a directory

Status:	NEW

Product:	fam
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	fam
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All All

Importance:	normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Michael Wardle
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Reported:	2005-04-09 07:49 CDT by jylefort
Modified:	2005-04-09 09:49 CDT (History)
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Description jylefort 2005-04-09 07:49:46 CDT

Although
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&fname=/SGI_Developer/books/IIDsktp_IG/sgi_html/ch08.html
states that "If you specify the pathname of a symbolic link to
FAMMonitorDirectory() or FAMMonitorFile(), FAM monitors only the symbolic link
itself, not the target of the link", FAM does follow symbolic links for
monitored directories, since it calls opendir() in the DirectoryScanner constructor.

You should only call opendir() if the file is not a symbolic link.