sshfs doesn't work with symbolic links on the server

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Log on to a server that has symbolic links in its directory.  (This is 
standard on servers hosted 
by pair.com.)
2. Double-click a symbolic link.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: The file or folder pointed to by the link opens up.  Actual: an error 
message from 
Finder about an invalid alias.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.3.0 on OS 10.4.9.

Please provide any additional information below.
If I include the symbolic link as part of the remote directory path, then I can 
get to where it 
points.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by o...@jwwalker.com on 19 May 2007 at 10:45

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Please search in the past issues reported here and/or in the macfuse-devel 
mailing list. No, what you expect isn't 
technically the "right" thing to happen, even though it might be the desirable 
thing in your case (or many other 
people's case for that matter). The behavior you desire *is* available in 
sshfs, it just isn't the default. You can 
turn it on through the "follow_symlinks" mount-time option. If you do that, 
symbolic links on the server won't be 
visible to the client at all--they will be pre-followed and will look like they 
were just files or directories.

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 19 May 2007 at 10:52

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