infinite loop if try to download a soft link directory

[tommywu]

try to download a soft link directory from remote site,
FileZilla will go into an infinite loop and eat 100% CPU.
This will happen for both ftp and sftp.

[Tim Kosse]

I could not reproduce this problem. Can you please provide
further information, like the full paths of the link and the
target and the source directory where the download got started?

[tommywu]

test case:
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[twu@dbtst testcase]$ pwd
/home/twu/testcase
[twu@dbtst testcase]$ ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxr-x 3 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:37 .
drwx------ 12 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:32 testdir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 twu twu 8 Oct 19 08:33 testlink1 -> testdir/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 twu twu 20 Oct 19 08:34 testlink2 ->
/var/spool/testlink/
[twu@dbtst testcase]$ ls -la testdir
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:32 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:37 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 912 Oct 19 08:32 t.php
[twu@dbtst testcase]$ ls -la testlink1/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:32 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:37 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 912 Oct 19 08:32 t.php
[twu@dbtst testcase]$ ls -la testlink2/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 twu twu 4096 Oct 19 08:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Oct 19 08:33 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 twu twu 188 Oct 19 08:33 hosts
[twu@dbtst testcase]$
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If download testlink1, it work fine.
but download testlink2, FZ3 will change the directory to
/var/spool/testlink/, then hang, eat 100% CPU.

[Tim Kosse]

Thanks for reporting. This issue has been fixed in the CVS
repository and will be available with the next version.

[tommywu]

I just build from CVS, the problem is gone, but no any
files/directorys in the soft link directory will be transferred.

[Tim Kosse]

That is by design, because it is outside the physical
directory tree of the startig location.