[Bug 426912] [NEW] [karmic] Kicad walks the entire home directory, and follows symlinks causing it to loop

[Carey Underwood]

Public bug reported:

strace kicad
<snip>
stat64("/home/cwillu/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.mozilla/firefox/0lerg7xt.default/Cache/2E40D453d01", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=39475, ...}) = 0
stat64("/home/cwillu/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/cwillu/My Documents/.mozilla/firefox/0lerg7xt.default/Cache/B1D6E394d01", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=23866, ...}) = 03

First of all, it shouldn't be walking the directory tree in the first place ("none of your damn business").
Secondly, if one insists on walking a directory tree, then proper handling of symlinks is a requirement to avoid loops.

** Affects: kicad (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[karmic] Kicad walks the entire home directory, and follows symlinks causing it to loop
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426912
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