RA messing up with symlinks

[sergiobenrocha2]

RA is messing up when you have symlinks in a folder. For example, /usr/lib/libretro/ has symlinks for /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libretro/ and RA shows the cores as folders, you can even enter it.

I have some symlinks on my ROM folder too, RA only sees relatives symlinks like ../MAME/roms_cps1, absolute ones does not appears in the browsing (maybe it's a different issue?).

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[fbis251]

+1 I can also reproduce this on ubuntu 15.10 with the latest retroarch files from the testing PPA

retroarch --version
RetroArch: Frontend for libretro -- v1.3.0Compiler: GCC (5.2.1) 64-bitBuilt: Nov 20 2015

[sergiobenrocha2]

5a28266 broke it. Both issues are related.

[andres-asm]

is this still happening? please reopen if so

[sergiobenrocha2]

Yeah, this still happens for cores and my mame symlink dirs.

[kivutar]

Maybe related, RA fails to extract zips (like core info files) in a folder that is the result of a union mount of fuse-unionfs.

@sergiobenrocha2 are you sure that this commit 5a28266 is the cause? It was supposed to be pure refactoring.

[sergiobenrocha2]

6ff544b fixed it, thanks.

[kivutar]

Sadly, this doesn't fix the problem with unionfs.

[andres-asm]

@kivutar, is that major? where do you use unionfs?

[orbea]

Is this still a problem with unionfs?

[LibretroAdmin]

Closing this until we get a further confirmation whether or not this still happens.