<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>
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