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Bug 357456

Summary:	Eclipse does not display and recognize unix symbolic links in projects
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ali <anebi>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen, Szymon.Brandys
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Ali

2011-09-13 05:04:37 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100211-1343

I have created inside the project several symbolic links using terminal:

ln -s workspace/testproject/testfolder/file1 workspace/testproject/testfolder2/file1

ln -s workspace/testproject/testfolder/file2 workspace/testproject/testfolder2/file2

I do refresh of testfolder2 in eclipse project tree, but I don't see the links.

Eclipse does not recognize and display those links.

I know I can create new links inside the project using New File -> Advanced -> Link to filesystem file..., but I would like eclipse to take care also for unix symlinks.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2011-09-13 08:47:36 EDT

Eclipse supports Unix symlinks. However to list files from the underlying filesystem we just use java.io.File. I need to check if java handles this case properly when I have access to Linux tomorrow.

Comment 2 Ali

2011-09-13 09:55:30 EDT

Hello,

I did some more tests and I found that actually it is not eclipse problem. 

As I explained on the issue I created symlinks this way:

ln -s workspace/testproject/testfolder/file1
workspace/testproject/testfolder2/file1

ln -s workspace/testproject/testfolder/file2
workspace/testproject/testfolder2/file2

But creating synlinks this way creates that links.

cd workspace/testproject/testfolder2
ls -la
file1 -> workspace/testproject/testfolder/file1
file2 -> workspace/testproject/testfolder/file2

These links points to non existent files and links are dead. Because of links are dead eclipse does not show them in file structure.

I just created links properly and eclipse listed them. So this is definitely not a problem with eclipse.

I close the issue as it is invalid and not eclipse related at all.

Regards,
Ali