[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#457774: Bug#457774: thunar: fail to handle properties of broken sym link

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mar, 2007-12-25 at 15:29 +0100, JusTiCe8 wrote:
> Package: thunar
> Version: 0.9.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
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> 
> Having a broken sym. link in a dir make thunar a bit confused.
> 
> - create a file with another user (root is good),
> - create a sym link to this file with current user,
> - remove the file created at step 1 (by the owner),
> - when show properties of link, thunar opens a window then close it
>   immediatly, link is not showed anymore in directory listing until
>   refresh view.

Hmhm, I can confirm this, but don't see the point to do this as root.
Even removing the symlink target confuses thunar (well, it doesn't
refresh the brokenness of the link). I'll investigate and maybe report
upstream.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis