Bug 438841 - Symlink files resulting in wrong file sizes
Summary: Symlink files resulting in wrong file sizes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: filelight
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 21.04.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Sandsmark
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Reported: 2021-06-18 05:43 UTC by rezanmz
Modified: 2022-05-22 21:56 UTC (History)
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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
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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) {