[vdr] vdr 1.7.23: patch for handling symlinks in recordings directory as earlier

[Oliver Endriss]

On Thursday 26 January 2012 11:07:18 Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> On 25.01.2012 14:11, Oliver Endriss wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 January 2012 10:29:16 Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >> On 17.01.2012 14:26, sundararaj reel wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am attaching a patch for vdr 1.7.23 for the problem described here:
> >>> http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/p1047199-announce-vdr-developer-version-1-7-23/#post1047199
> >>>
> >>> There appears to be a problem in listing recordings due to a bug fix
> >>> in vdr 1.7.23. "Fixed handling symbolic links in
> >>> cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()"
> >>>
> >>> The attached patch just disables the translation of symbolic links to
> >>> "real" paths. So that all recordings appear to be under the same
> >>> (recordings) directory tree, as it was earlier.
> >>>
> >>> Please reply with your results.
> >>
> >> Can somebody who has actually this use case please confirm
> >> whether this patch fixes the problem?
> >
> > Confirmed.
> >
> > Without this patch, symbolic links are not displayed
> > correctly on my machine.
> >
> > Oliver
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I believe the second call to stat() is now superfluous.
> Can you please confirm that the following patch still works
> as expected?
> 
> --- recording.c 2012/01/25 09:32:39     2.45
> +++ recording.c 2012/01/26 10:02:29
> @@ -1120,11 +1120,6 @@
>                       continue;
>                       }
>                    Link = 1;
> -                 buffer = ReadLink(buffer);
> -                 if (!*buffer)
> -                    continue;
> -                 if (stat(buffer, &st) != 0)
> -                    continue;
>                    }
>                 if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
>                    if (endswith(buffer, deleted ? DELEXT : RECEXT)) {

Yes, it does not make any difference here.

CU
Oliver

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