Opened 10 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#5347 closed defect (wontfix)

Config option to toggle vrt follow symlink

Reported by: Kurt Schwehr Owned by: Kurt Schwehr
Priority: normal Milestone: closed_because_of_github_migration
Component: default Version: svn-trunk
Severity: minor Keywords:
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Description

Be able to turn off VRT following for situations where it breaks things. For example where directories of files are constructed from symbolic links such as CAS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage) file systems.

Implement CSLTestBoolean(CPLGetConfigOption("VRT_FOLLOW_SYMLINK", "YES")) or something like it

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Kurt Schwehr, 10 years ago

Status: newassigned

comment:2 by Even Rouault, 9 years ago

Any progress on that ? Still worth being kept open ?

comment:3 by Kurt Schwehr, 9 years ago

Please keep it open. Thanks. Sorry I haven't gotten to it yet.

comment:4 by Even Rouault, 5 years ago

Milestone: closed_because_of_github_migration
Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

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