symlinks resolved when opening new window or tab

[realh]

Symlinks appear to be resolved when a new window or tab is opened. For example, if my working directory is ~/quick/Mongolian, which is a symlink to /data/Documents/Homework/Indiana/Mongolian, and I open a new window or tab, the working directory within that session becomes /data/Documents/Homework/Indiana/Mongolian. The same is true if the working directory is a subdirectory of ~/quick/Mongolian.

Reported by: jonorthwash

Original Ticket: "roxterm/bugs/15":https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/bugs/15

[realh]

I don't think I can do anything about that. It gets the cwd by reading it from /proc//cwd which points to the resolved location if you got there via a link. But you have made me realise that there are problems in the code for doing this so I should fix it.

Original comment by: realh

[realh]

It's interesting that xterm appears to have the correct behaviour when a new window is opened. Maybe you could implement it into ROXTerm however xterm does it?

Original comment by: jonorthwash

[realh]

The main difference is that xterm uses a separate instance for each window so each one inherits the cwd from its parent without having to do anything. All ROXTerm windows share a single instance even if you run each one from the command line, unless you use the --separate flag. This means they have to have their working directory set explicitly, otherwise they'd all be stuck with whatever was the cwd when the original instance was run.

When a second instance is run from a command it reads the cwd and sends a dbus request to the original instance to open a new window with that directory and all the other options. It seems that getcwd() and g_get_current_dir() both follow symlinks, but I stumbled across GNU's get_current_dir_name() which appears not to, so I've changed roxterm to use that when it's available.

In short, opening a new window by running a roxterm command should now set the cwd the way you want, but I can't change what happens to it when using the New Window/Tab menu items. Please checkout the latest svn.

Original comment by: realh