Bug#177201: gnome-session ignore original symlink

[Kristian Kvilekval]

I think this involves the principle of least surprise.   I login
to /home/kris, but the prompt shows up as the symlinked version.
Actually I think this bug should be closed as I haven't seen this
in a while.


On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 19:39 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>         Session programs are always saved with the result of following symlinks
>         resulting in strange behavior.  For example
>         /home/kris is symlinked to /disks/merrimack1/users/kris.
>         
>         For example in a simple gnome-terminal:
>         
>         Executing the command 'pwd' in the shell reports /home/kris,
>         while executing gnome-session-save will leave /disks/merrimack1/users/kris
>         in the currentDirectory field of the .gnome2/session file.
> 
> I don't understand the issue there. Can you please explain which
> practical problems this creates? Otherwise I'll have to close this bug.
> 
> Regards,