Re: Relative paths in .desktop, .service files' Exec= lines

Allison Lortie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.xdg.devel,gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <1466704794.3123444.646627121.660AE1DF@webmail.messagingengine.com>
hi,

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, at 13:54, Simon McVittie wrote:
> OK. So are you thinking of something like this pseudocode?

Almost.  See below.


>         if lstat(path) says it's a symlink:

s/if/while/  (plus a recursion depth check).

ie: if the file that we get back is also a symlink, keep going, but
never check directories.

Implementation quibble: just readlink() and if that fails, it's
obviously not.

Allison
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