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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by dmurray on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:03AM (#20845808)
Shouldn't this be configurable at the OS level? If you don't want programs to be able to treat symlinked files differently from "real" files, then don't expose an is_this_a_symlink() API, or at least have the system configurable so this always returns false for certain callers.

It seems wrong to say a program is broken when it's using the OS-provided API in the documented way.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:29AM (#20845911)
That's a lot of work for what's still only a partial solution. Some symlinks inside Dropbox should get synced as symlinks. But for these use cases, some shouldn't.
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