[Cyberduck-trac] [Cyberduck] #995: Symbolic links on local side are not handled properly

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#995: Symbolic links on local side are not handled properly
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 Reporter:  simonvwade  |       Owner:  dkocher
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  highest     |   Milestone:         
Component:  core        |     Version:  2.7.2  
 Severity:  critical    |    Keywords:         
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 When you download a file and overwrite a file that is a symbolic link on
 the local machine Cyberduck does something very weird. It should open a
 file pointer on the symbolic link and the filesystem will handle writing
 the contents of the file to the location that is referred to by the
 symbolic link.

 Example:

 In Terminal:

 {{{
 cd ~/tmp
 echo "Hello world" > file.txt
 ln -s file.txt link.txt
 ls -al
 }}}

 In Cyberduck:
 {{{
 Upload link.txt
 Download link.txt
 }}}

 In Terminal:
 {{{
 cd ~/tmp
 ls -al
 }}}

 See that file.txt has now become a symbolic link to 'Hello world?' - it's
 not even a file anymore.

 Thanks for a great FTP client!

 Simon

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