updating a page replaces a unix soft link with a real file

[Josef Dalcolmo]

zim 0.60, python 2.7.5 on xubuntu

if one places a soft link instead of a real file as a page into a zim notebook,
and then makes any changes to the page,
the soft link gets replaced (overwritten) by a real file,
instead of overwriting the file where the symlink points to,
thereby breaking the link to the original file, which remains unchanged.

This is unexpected behavior.
It may sometimes be convenient to share pages between different notebooks,
for example, for consolidating the "todo" lists of several projects into one (global "todo") notebook.
As a workaround one can use hard links for this, which I find less appealing.

[Josef Dalcolmo (josef-dalcolmo)]

I just realized, the same applies to hard links (the link is replaced by a new file on writing), so the workaround does not work.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

The "replace on write" is a strategy to ensure writing is atomic.

I believe linking folders should work, but linking files is for me an advanced usage that I do not see as something that is expected to work this way.