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[ Upstream commit 3eb40512530e4f64f819d8e723b6f41695dace5a ] SMB protocol for native symlinks distinguish between symlink to directory and symlink to file. These two symlink types cannot be exchanged, which means that symlink of file type pointing to directory cannot be resolved at all (and vice-versa). Windows follows this rule for local filesystems (NTFS) and also for SMB. Linux SMB client currenly creates all native symlinks of file type. Which means that Windows (and some other SMB clients) cannot resolve symlinks pointing to directory created by Linux SMB client. As Linux system does not distinguish between directory and file symlinks, its API does not provide enough information for Linux SMB client during creating of native symlinks. Add some heuristic into the Linux SMB client for choosing the correct symlink type during symlink creation. Check if the symlink target location ends with slash, or last path component is dot or dot-dot, and check if the target location on SMB share exists and is a directory. If at least one condition is truth then create a new SMB symlink of directory type. Otherwise create it as file type symlink. This change improves interoperability with Windows systems. Windows systems would be able to resolve more SMB symlinks created by Linux SMB client which points to existing directory. Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.