Nautilus doesn't deal well with symlinks over sftp

[Phil Housley]

There seem to be a whole stream of related problems about symlinked folders over
sftp. They all seem to be caused by a single bug though: nautilus doesn't
properly recognise the symlinks to be folders.

Symptoms of this include:

* the sidebar tree view will not show heirarchies involving symlinks unless each
link has been queried explicitly (such as by right-clicking on the icon.)

* the main display tree view (the list view one) will not allow symlinks to
folder to be expanded.

* an error box telling you that you can't open a folder, because "The filename
"audio" indicates that this file is of type "x-special/symlink". The contents of
the file indicate that the file is of type "folder". If you open this file, the
file might present a security risk to your system." appears occasionally,
although I can't pinpoint the exact circumstance.

[Phil Housley (undeconstructed)]

Ah, this would be http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153679.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, there is couple of sftp bugs upstream, this is one of them.

[Karl Hegbloom (karl.hegbloom)]

See my comments in https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12230 regarding
this issue. This bug and that one should be merged.