Re: [hatari-devel] C: does not open if it contains a dangling symlink

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/24/20 5:59 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hi, I noticed this bug today.
> I reproduced it on both Ubuntu and Cygwin.
>
> Run Atari with GEMDOS drive emulation.
>  From outside, create a dangling symlink in the C: folder:
> ln -s foo bar
>
> Inside Hatari (TOS or EmuTOS), double-click on the C: drive. It doesn't 
> open, even if there are valid files in the folder. So a single dangling 
> symlink prevents the whole drive to be opened. This should not happen. 
> It should just appear like an invalid file.
>
> Standard output is:
> /home/vincent/c/bar: No such file or directory
> WARN : GEMDOS Fsnext(): Error setting DTA

Thanks for reporting this, it should be fixed now:
https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/commit/?id=cde30d816e0b69f56445bce7be6a7c1609e5c4ea

Non-existing host side files won't be visible to
the emulated system anymore, even as errors.


	- Eero