[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Not honoring symbolic links on windows when saving (#1533)

[elextr]

@R1dO nice review

> The 1st observation I draw from this is that gio (it is a gtk library corrrect?) behaves differently on windows and linux.

GIO is of the Glib/GTK family yes, and indeed it would appear that it does not understand Windows links.  The only way to know what it does is to read the source, and of course that can have changed since I looked (see 2013 date on wiki entry).

> The 2nd observation is that my linux box does not behave as in your 3rd comment. If I understand that one correct the default behaviour should create a new file. However (luckily for me) it honours the link.

In fact it is because it behaves as in my point 3 in the first two rows (the only two using GIO) that it preserves the link, it falls back to writing over the old file when something goes wrong with creating and renaming the new file, including not being able to copy the old files metadata, like permissions and ownership.  Are you sure your permissions and umask allow it to set those?  But possibly it also specifically checks for and preserves links.

@codebrainz GIO makes the `file~` backups if its called with the boolean parameter set, see the left hand option in the table.

Of course this only works if GIO is used, so only in that one row.

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