Bug 438841

Summary:	Symlink files resulting in wrong file sizes
Product:	[Applications] filelight	Reporter:	rezanmz
Component:	general	Assignee:	Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	rezanmz, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description rezanmz 2021-06-18 05:43:56 UTC

SUMMARY
Wrong file sizes for symlink files when indexing

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Symlink a bunch of large files to arbitrary locations

OBSERVED RESULT
Filelight accounts for the size of symlink files when indexing. I have a lot of large files symlinked elsewhere on my computer. The total used space shown in filelight is larger than my SSD capacity!! and I only have a single SSD

EXPECTED RESULT
Symlink files are basically pointing to the original files. Their sizes should not be accounted when indexing.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2022-05-22 21:56:19 UTC

I am going out on a limb and say this is fixed because 21.04 is old and the currently code definitely doesn't deference symlinks

>        if (fstatat(m_dirfd, ent->d_name, &statbuf, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) == -1) {