Re: [madman-discuss] Should madman's "add media dir." always follow symlinks?

[Andreas <ma...@ti...>]

On Donnerstag 17 Februar 2005 21:28, Kyle Liddell wrote:
> I've recently begun using sfs (secure filesystem) to access my music
> over untrusted networks.  A problem I've come across is that sfs
> dynamically creates/mounts the remote filesystem after an access attempt
> and symlinks the dir. you want to an internal name for the dir.  Madman
> follows the symlink but ends up using the actual path, which goes away
> after inactivity, which means music can't be found.
> I've changed line 58 of dirlist.cpp to be:
>   QString dir =3D QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory(QString::null, Parent,
> tr("Add Directory"), NULL, TRUE, FALSE);
> which seems to fix the problem by not resolving symlinks to actual dirs.
> I don't know how many other people will need this, but it might be
> wanted as a config option.

Actually, I consider it good manners for programs to not resolve symlinks.=
=20
Changed, committed.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Andreas