Bug 17335 – Symlinks can't always be browsed through unless renamed.

Bug 17335 - Symlinks can't always be browsed through unless renamed.

Summary:

Symlinks can't always be browsed through unless renamed.

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Product:	Logitech Media Server
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Player UI
Version:	7.5.x
Platform:	Macintosh MacOS X 10.7

Importance:	-- normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Reported:	2011-07-24 13:15 UTC by RTBoyce
Modified:	2011-07-24 13:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description RTBoyce 2011-07-24 13:15:53 UTC

See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=642830#post642830 .

I can find no pattern to what causes this bug. The system just doesn't seem to like certain names for symlinks. Is there some hashing of the names going on internally? Replacing one character seems to make the failing symlink work for browsing. For example, I had a failing symlink that had a couple of spaces in the name. Note that this is the name of the link, not its target. I changed one space to a non-breaking space, and the symlink now worked.

Very odd. I'm guessing that the bug is new, but maybe some change I made triggered the problem.