Journal doesn't follow symlinks

[humitos]

Steps to reproduce it:

1. Create a directory under /tmp, "test" for example

   mkdir /tmp/test
   

2. Copy some files (pdf, audio, scripts, anything) inside /tmp/test
3. Make a symlink to this folder under ~/Documents

   cd ~/Documents
   ln -s /tmp/test .
   

4. Run Sugar
5. Go to the Journal
6. Click "Documents" icon at the bottom

Issue:

Your files under /tmp/test do not appear in the Journal list.

Expected behaviour:

Show the files under /tmp/test

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I found this topic was already discussed here[1] and a patch was applied here[2] but I think there is a bug on this patch because of this that I'm reporting here.

I'm uploading a patch that allow symlinks to be followed but I'd like to improve it because it doesn't contemplate all the cases.

[1] ​http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10140
[2] ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/c4faafd51c63bf19e14f23b710d310269dff4b07

[humitos]

This patch is not a solution, but it shows how it should work

[humitos]

Those symlinks that point to some folder inside self._mount_point are allowed in the original version of Sugar, but it is useless because that folder is going to be read anyway (because of the recursive reader)

[dnarvaez]

Imo, this is not important enough to fix. Patches would be welcome of course, but I don't think we should track it.