<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>First I just want to say this is a terrific project! Of course I wish I could just leave it at that, but I also have a question. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Our deployment system which makes extensive use of symlinks. However, it seems that plugins cannot be loaded through symlinks.</div>
<div><br></div><i>Source version 5.4.1; plugin.c; starting at line 970:</i><div>







<p><font face="courier new, monospace"><span>else</span> <span>if</span> (!S_ISREG (statbuf.<span>st_mode</span>))<br></font><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">{<br>
</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">  /* don't follow </span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">symlinks</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"> */<br>

</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">  WARNING (</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">"plugin_load: %s is not a regular file."</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">,<br>

</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">    </span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">      </span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">filename);<br>
</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">  continue</span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">;<br></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">}</span></p>

<div>I have been unable to find an explanation in the FAQ or through Google (seems all/most of the mailing list archives are now indexed). Would someone mind elaborating on why symlinks are not followed to load plugins?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Many Thanks,</div><div>Ville</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(58,67,78);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><img src="http://groupon.s3.amazonaws.com/email-images/email-sig/top-line.jpg" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></div>

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