On 8. juni 2011, at 16.51, Jens Elkner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:46:39PM -0700, Sadanand Limaye wrote: >> I have tried with -N option. But in my case, source code where >> there are around 500+ directories structure and lots of then >> have sym links so i have to fire separate command with such >> -N option because each time the path next to -N is different. > > Haven't looked into the related code yet, but in general symlinks > should be silently accepted/indexed (even when pointing outside > the project/repo dir), if the user wants that. Options like > FollowSymlinks and FollowSymlinksIfOwnerMatch [otherwise IgnoreSymlinks] > comes into mind ... > However, wrt. this feature, IMHO waiting for JDK7 (java.nio.file.*) > would be beneficial.
Just to add some context on _WHY_ that code was added.. We had runtime problems for repositories that contained symbolic links to /dev etc... I would say that normally you don't have any symbolic links in your source repository, so suddenly walking into "random" places (imagine /net/machine/export/foo) should just be ignored... I'm really looking forward for the new nio.file classes as we're currently stat'ing the files _WAY_ too much during indexing due to the limited capabilities of the java.io.File class.. Trond _______________________________________________ opengrok-discuss mailing list opengrok-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opengrok-discuss
