If a directory made available through Apache WEB DAV module, contains folders / directories made / linked with NTFS junction, these folders are not shown in a directory listing. I have really tried to figure out why, and as far I can tell it is because the function building the directory tree don't accept NTFS junctions as directories or any other kind of file for that matter. Looking in the source code I found this some code in repos.c that might be responsible for building the directory tree. else if (fsctx->info1.finfo.filetype == APR_DIR) { apr_size_t save_path_len = fsctx->path1.cur_len; apr_size_t save_uri_len = fsctx->uri_buf.cur_len; apr_size_t save_path2_len = fsctx->path2.cur_len; ... == APR_DIR tells me that somewhere in the code APR_DIR is valid for normal folders but not for NTFS junctions... can that be changed or will it be possible to say something like this. else if (fsctx->info1.finfo.filetype == APR_DIR || APR_NTFS_JUNCTION).. Oh when activating the INDEXES option in a site config, the function generating the HTML to show the folder / file structure is able to show the directories made with NTFS junction. But I couldn't find that code, to see how it recognized directories made with NTFS junctions.
Presuming there is no flaw, NTFS junctions are handled exactly as unix symlinks. Of course a symlink may be to a file or directory, while NTFS junctions may only resolve to a directory. So if the information is gathered from an apr_file_stat, it should show as the target of the junction, and if its gathered as an lstat, it would be a symlink.
(In reply to comment #1) > Presuming there is no flaw, NTFS junctions are handled exactly as unix > symlinks. > Of course a symlink may be to a file or directory, while NTFS junctions may > only resolve to a directory. > > So if the information is gathered from an apr_file_stat, it should show as the > target of the junction, and if its gathered as an lstat, it would be a symlink. That comment riddle me a bit, if I have understood it correctly you are saying, that as the code is now, it should be able to return a NTFS junction as a directory. It is more a matter of me setting up Apache or NTFS junction correctly. I have only read some of the source code for mod_dav, I haven't set up a prober build environment as I lack the skills to do so. I'll wish I could test and see how the code handles the NTFS junctions directories, when making a directory listing but having no previous experience in building Apache or writing C code I find that a bit hard. What I can tell you is that even though mod_dav doesn't accept my NTFS junction as directory when making a listing of the directory where the junction folder is. (long sentence sorry), I'm able to browse/copy/upload the contents of the junction folder, when writing the complete path in my web_dav client.
Are there any suggestion on how I can solve this problem?? If it is a change in Apcache config or the way I make NTFS junctions, are there anyone who would like to come with suggestions on how I go about that???
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