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Bug 191881 - Continuesly Scanning projects & the cause of it
Summary: Continuesly Scanning projects & the cause of it
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: php
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Editor (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Petr Pisl
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Reported: 2010-11-12 08:23 UTC by bartdeboer86
Modified: 2011-06-08 13:48 UTC (History)
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Description bartdeboer86 2010-11-12 08:23:41 UTC 
Hello,

I had this problem again and agian using different versions of Netbeans on my system. At first I could not find what caused the problem but now I have found it.

The reason why Netbeans on my system keeps scanning projects (until it crashes in every version) is because I have one symbolic link inside the project itself.

I am using a php project and inside this project I created the following symbolic link:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 user user      1 2010-11-12 09:12 somedomainname.com -> .

As you can see it links to the same directory where it is in. For some reason Netbeans starts following that symbolic link for infinite time.. Ofcourse this problem does not occur on Windows machines since there the link is threated as a file.

The way Netbeans crashes is according to me a defect in handling symbolic links.

Removing the link fixed my scanning projects problem.
Comment 1 Tomas Mysik 2011-06-08 13:48:55 UTC 
Symbolic links should already work without any problems I think. Please, reopen if the problem still exists.

Thanks.