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ignoring circular symlinks in the filesystem [message #336493]

Wed, 17 June 2009 09:04

Eclipse User

folks,

we have circular symlinks on the filesystem. eg:
fold1/compA/src
fold1/compB/src
fold1/ALL_SOURCES ---> ../fold1 (ALL_SOURCES is a symlink to fold1)

when we try to create eclipse project on 'fold1' above, the refresh is
taking unusually long time.

any idea how to prevent eclipse to simply ignore traversing under
fold1/ALL_SOURCES (which is a cicular symlink)?

in our environemtn we DO need fold1/ALL_SOURCES symlink to be present for
our external builds to work.

we have already tried setting the resources 'fold1/ALL_SOURCES' to be
team internal using IRESOURCE->setTeamPrivateMemeber(true) -- but still
that
does NOT seem to help slowness experienced during refresh.

Any thoughts/workarounds are apprecited.

thanks,
-badari

Re: ignoring circular symlinks in the filesystem [message #336499 is a reply to message #336493]

Wed, 17 June 2009 13:24

Eclipse User

You could perhaps use a linked resource of the same name
"fold1/ALL_SOURCES". The linked resource would hide the link on the
filesystem.

See
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/968643/eclipse-ignore-ent ire-directories/972450#972450
which is somewhat similar.

-Andrew

Badari Kakumani wrote:
> folks,
>
> we have circular symlinks on the filesystem. eg:
> fold1/compA/src
> fold1/compB/src
> fold1/ALL_SOURCES ---> ../fold1 (ALL_SOURCES is a symlink to fold1)
>
> when we try to create eclipse project on 'fold1' above, the refresh is
> taking unusually long time.
>
> any idea how to prevent eclipse to simply ignore traversing under
> fold1/ALL_SOURCES (which is a cicular symlink)?
>
> in our environemtn we DO need fold1/ALL_SOURCES symlink to be present for
> our external builds to work.
>
> we have already tried setting the resources 'fold1/ALL_SOURCES' to be
> team internal using IRESOURCE->setTeamPrivateMemeber(true) -- but still
> that
> does NOT seem to help slowness experienced during refresh.
>
> Any thoughts/workarounds are apprecited.
>
> thanks,
> -badari
>

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