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Bug 314494 - [local] Broken symbolic links are not shown in the Local file system on Linux
Summary: [local] Broken symbolic links are not shown in the Local file system on Linux
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Target Management
Classification: Tools
Component: RSE (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: dsdp.tm.rse-inbox CLA
QA Contact: Martin Oberhuber CLA
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Reported: 2010-05-26 12:02 EDT by Martin Oberhuber CLA
Modified: 2010-05-26 12:11 EDT (History)
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Description Martin Oberhuber CLA 2010-05-26 12:02:25 EDT 
Build ID: RSE 3.2rc2

mkdir adir
cd adir
ln -s notExisting.txt broken.txt

--> The broken symbolic link "broken.txt" is not displayed in the RSE Local file system on Linux, whereas it is properly displayed with the SSH and DStore connections.

I briefly checked the code, and it looks like there are 2 culprits:
1.) org.eclipse.rse.internal.subsystems.files.local.model.LocalFile
    The  getClassification() method only performs a real classification if
    IHostFile#isFile() is true, which is not the case for broken symlinks.

2.) org.eclipse.rse.services.clientserver.SystemFileClassifier.classifyFile(String)
    performs no work if it thinks that the file in question does not exist.
    This is different to the classifier used for dstore,
    org.eclipse.rse.internal.dstore.universal.miners.filesystem.FileClassifier
Comment 1 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2010-05-26 12:11:39 EDT 
I have added a Unittest for the problem, see attachment 170033 [details] on bug 314496.