Re: [Arx-users] Segfault accessing the publix ArX archive

[Marc Recht]

> I have tracked down this problem to a difference in semantics between
> Linux and OS X.  If you hard link a symlink in Linux, you get a
> symlink.  If you do that in OS X, you get a hard linked file.  ArX
> does this when copying trees around.  The solution is to change the

Oh my... But, if I get 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/link.html 
correctly then this (OS X's way) seems to be the correct way. It'd be 
interessting how other OSes (eg. Solaris) behave.

> definition of copy_link in
> src/boost/libs/filesystem/src/operations_posix_windows.cpp line 569
> from
[...]

> When I do that, I get new problems with being unable to delete a
> non-empty directory.  My guess is that the switch to using gnome-vfs
> to do the delete didn't really solve the problem.  However, I am going

Hmm, I my case it deleted the files and directories correctly, but I'll 
recheck this with the above changes.

> on vacation, so I won't be able to debug this more until next year.

Happy holidays and merry Christmas.


Cheers,
Marc