Hi!
One thing I would like to see in the final 3.0 release is a more robust handling of recursive symlinks when connecting to a SFTP linux server (maybe FTP is affected as well).
Example (a listing from my openSuSE 10.3 installation):
As you can see there is a symlinked directory called boot which points to the current directory. Using BC3's folder compare you can endlessly expand the boot folder resulting in a cascaded tree structure (screenshot1).
When you try to do some action with this folder (for example Compare Contents... or Copy To Right...) the background-scanning stops after a while with Unable to load boot: No such file in the log pane.
The calculated amount of files so far is 588 files, 43 folders, 201 MB.
Using the Calculate function of WinSCP's properties dialog for the same folder shows a different result (screenshot2). Somewhere in their forum or documentation I've read that WinSCP internally remembers every scanned directory in order to avoid endless loops caused by recursive symlinks.
It would be nice when BC3 could deliver the same results ...
Bye
Christoph
One thing I would like to see in the final 3.0 release is a more robust handling of recursive symlinks when connecting to a SFTP linux server (maybe FTP is affected as well).
Example (a listing from my openSuSE 10.3 installation):
Code:
linux-g1jp:/boot # ll insgesamt 9700 -rw------- 1 root root 512 13. Jan 14:45 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 13. Jan 14:12 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80417 11. Feb 04:14 config-2.6.22.17-0.1-default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 29. Feb 21:31 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 29. Feb 21:31 initrd -> initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4190802 29. Feb 21:31 initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 394752 19. Jan 12:40 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100315 11. Feb 04:15 symsets-2.6.22.17-0.1-default.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400576 11. Feb 04:16 symtypes-2.6.22.17-0.1-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116297 11. Feb 04:15 symvers-2.6.22.17-0.1-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 843401 11. Feb 04:02 System.map-2.6.22.17-0.1-default -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2147048 11. Feb 04:13 vmlinux-2.6.22.17-0.1-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 29. Feb 21:30 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1593936 11. Feb 04:02 vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default
When you try to do some action with this folder (for example Compare Contents... or Copy To Right...) the background-scanning stops after a while with Unable to load boot: No such file in the log pane.
The calculated amount of files so far is 588 files, 43 folders, 201 MB.
Using the Calculate function of WinSCP's properties dialog for the same folder shows a different result (screenshot2). Somewhere in their forum or documentation I've read that WinSCP internally remembers every scanned directory in order to avoid endless loops caused by recursive symlinks.
It would be nice when BC3 could deliver the same results ...
Bye
Christoph
Comment