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Re: Completion doesn't work on symlink to . with ignore-parents

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Completion doesn't work on symlink to . with ignore-parents
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:06:34 +0200
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On 2010-07-26 14:07:26 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> It might be this simple.  The function in question appears only to do
> comparison on device and inode.  If, as this bug report suggests, it's
> wrong to ignore symbolic links to the file in question, then always doing
> an lstat() is presumably correct.  However, the function is about three
> levels of undocumentation deep inside the completion system.  I've added a
> lonely comment saying what I think is going on.

Thanks. I confirm that this fixes the problem here.

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References:
- Completion doesn't work on symlink to . with ignore-parents
  - From: Vincent Lefevre
- Re: Completion doesn't work on symlink to . with ignore-parents
  - From: Vincent Lefevre
- Re: Completion doesn't work on symlink to . with ignore-parents
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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