You can also disable readlink to fix some issues. e.g. in a content addressable storage (CAS) filesystem, every file is typically in a separate directory, so you don't want links dereferenced.
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/port/cpl_config.h.in#L151 On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > On mercredi 8 mars 2017 22:37:42 CET Luis Ressel wrote: > > > On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:28:34 +0100 > > > > > > Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > > > > The relevant piece of code is in > > > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/ > vrtdataset.cpp#L73 > > > > 9 > > > > > > > > If you look a bit below in > > > > https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/trunk/gdal/frmts/vrt/ > vrtdataset.cpp#L81 > > > > 4 > > > > there's an open option ROOT_PATH that could be set to b/ to get the > > > > behaviour you wish. > > > > > > Thanks for the hint! Adjusting the ROOT_PATH is an acceptable solution > > > in my use case. > > > > > > Interestingly, GDAL used to handle symlinks to VRTs in the way I'd > > > expected, but this was changed back in 2013 (commit 66b3918df in the > > > git repository, committed by you). > > > > Looking at the commit message, it appears that this change was contributed > by someone else from https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4999 > > But my intuition is that the current behaviour is more natural than the > previous one (ie the one you'd expect). But obviously different people have > different use cases. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Luis Ressel > > > > > > -- > > Spatialys - Geospatial professional services > > http://www.spatialys.com > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- -- http://schwehr.org
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