Symbolic links on local side are not handled properly

[simonvwade]

When you download a file and overwrite a file that is a symbolic link on the local machine Cyberduck does something very weird. It should open a file pointer on the symbolic link and the filesystem will handle writing the contents of the file to the location that is referred to by the symbolic link.

Example:

In Terminal:

cd ~/tmp
echo "Hello world" > file.txt
ln -s file.txt link.txt
ls -al

In Cyberduck:

Upload link.txt
Download link.txt

In Terminal:

cd ~/tmp
ls -al

See that file.txt has now become a symbolic link to 'Hello world?' - it's not even a file anymore.

Thanks for a great FTP client!

Simon

[dkocher]

This seems to work here without any issues. What is not supported are the old style 'Alias' created in the Finder.app. These will get transferred as zero-sized files. Please reopen with more details (the output of ls -al before and after the transfers) if you can reproduce this issue.

[simonvwade]

monty:~/tmp$ echo "Hello world" > file.txt
monty:~/tmp$ ln -s file.txt link.txt
monty:~/tmp$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x     4 simonwad  staff   136 Jan 22 10:24 .
drwxr-xr-x   131 simonwad  staff  4454 Jan 22 10:23 ..
-rw-r--r--     1 simonwad  staff    12 Jan 22 10:24 file.txt
lrwxr-xr-x     1 simonwad  staff     8 Jan 22 10:24 link.txt -> file.txt

Uploaded and downloaded link.txt

monty:~/tmp$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x     5 simonwad  staff   170 Jan 22 10:26 .
drwxr-xr-x   131 simonwad  staff  4454 Jan 22 10:23 ..
-rw-r--r--     1 simonwad  staff     0 Jan 21 18:25 Hello world?
lrwxr-xr-x     1 simonwad  staff    12 Jan 22 10:26 file.txt -> Hello world?
lrwxr-xr-x     1 simonwad  staff     8 Jan 22 10:24 link.txt -> file.txt

[dkocher]

Thanks for the updated comment. I can see this now - very weird. Seems to be a problem in java.io.File as this is supposed to resolve symbolic transparently.

[dkocher]

As of r2773.