symbolic links circumvent blacklist

[Alexander Blum]

By blacklisting path "/home/user/folder", I would expect Zeitgeist to stop logging all activities regarding files within that folder. Still, logging happens to those files, if their path include symlinks like "/home/user/Desktop/folder" pointing to "/home/user/folder".

[Manish Sinha (मनीष सिन्हा) (manishsinha)]

Originally logged on Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/activity-log-manager/+bug/983690

By blacklisting path "/home/user/folder", I would expect Zeitgeist to stop logging all activities regarding files within that folder. Still, logging happens to those files, if their path include symlinks like "/home/user/Desktop/folder" pointing to "/home/user/folder".

Basically for every folder path, we need to check if the path is a symlink and then check if the path is actually present in the blacklist templates

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Closing activity-log-manager task since we set the directories correctly, it's just Zeitgeist that isn't handling them.