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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2485: Konqueror deletes dir contents instead of symlink
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-02-25 1:12:23
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:52:59PM +0100, Konrad Wojas wrote:
> Severity: critical
> Package: Konqueror
> Version: 0.2 (CVS 03-01-2000)
> 
> Suppose you have a directory and a symlink to this directory:
> 
> testdir/
> testsym@ -> testdir
> 
> If you try to delete the symlink in konqueror it will delete the
> contents of testdir/ instead!
> 
> The same kind of problem occurs when you try to rename the symlink:
> konqueror will copy the entire testdir directory to the new name
> instead of renaming the symlink.
> 
> When you try to rename a file/directory it first copies the
> file/directory and then it deletes the old one. This isn't very
> efficient and can cause problems when trying to move a large file/dir on
> an almost full filesystem.

Both of these issues have been taken into account in the rewrite
of the KIO library.

Just tested in konqueror, deleting a symlink to a dir only deletes the link,
and I know that moving uses direct moving when possible now.

Thanks for the reports.

-- 
David FAURE
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