id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 703 can't remove a dangling symlink gerard@… alfs-log@… "The remove handler uses the 'stat' call to remove files and check if the file exists in the first place. The stat call tries to resolve a symlink. lstat call is identical to stat except it looks at the link itself. From stat(2) man page: stat stats the file pointed to by file_name and fills in buf. lstat is identical to stat, except in the case of a symbolic link, where the link itself is stat-ed, not the file that it refers to. The patch as it would apply to 1.1.7 (not checked if it applies to CVS): diff -Naur nALFS-1.1.7.orig/src/handlers/new-remove.c nALFS-1.1.7/src/handlers/new-remove.c --- nALFS-1.1.7.orig/src/handlers/new-remove.c 2003-02-28 08:28:51.000000000 -0700 +++ nALFS-1.1.7/src/handlers/new-remove.c 2003-05-24 11:45:11.000000000 -0600 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ { struct stat file_stat; - if (stat(file, &file_stat)) { + if (lstat(file, &file_stat)) { if (errno == ENOENT) { Nprint_h_warn(""File %s doesn't exist."", file); return 0; 370,5-25 Bot" defect closed lowest nALFS - Back End (XML Handlers) SVN normal fixed