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    Don't verify symlinked target for I/O operations · f83d19ac
    Tomáš Bžatek authored
    Nautilus verifies the destination for free space, read-only ability
    and such. This however doesn't work for symlink pointing to a directory.
    
    Internally (in gio) we call statfs() but that actually stats the fs the
    symlink is on, instead of the place symlink is pointing to. This appears
    to be a limitation of POSIX statfs().
    
    To work around this limitation, let's disable these extra checks when
    destination is a folder and symlinked.
    
    The bug manifestation are false error messages preventing to create a file
    or directory when parent fs is read-only but contains a symlink to rw fs
    which is the desired destination.
    
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844713
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