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While investigating stack overflow (issue 268918) I found that IDE can not create a file inside a cyclic link: Caused: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Cannot create file vkvashin@localhost:/home/vkvashin/tmp/cyclic_link/newfile2 at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteExceptions.createFileNotFoundException(RemoteExceptions.java:93) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteDirectory.create(RemoteDirectory.java:308) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteDirectory.createDataImpl(RemoteDirectory.java:172) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteLinkBase.createDataImpl(RemoteLinkBase.java:311) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteLinkBase.createDataImpl(RemoteLinkBase.java:311) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteLinkBase.createDataImpl(RemoteLinkBase.java:311) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteFileObjectBase.createData(RemoteFileObjectBase.java:252) at org.netbeans.modules.remote.impl.fs.RemoteFileObject.createData(RemoteFileObject.java:470) at org.netbeans.api.templates.CreateFromTemplateImpl.defaultCreate(CreateFromTemplateImpl.java:244) at org.netbeans.api.templates.CreateFromTemplateImpl.build(CreateFromTemplateImpl.java:130) at org.netbeans.api.templates.CreateFromTemplateImpl.build(CreateFromTemplateImpl.java:92) at org.netbeans.api.templates.FileBuilder.build(FileBuilder.java:250) at org.netbeans.api.templates.FileBuilder.createFromTemplate(FileBuilder.java:351) at org.openide.loaders.FileEntry.createFromTemplate(FileEntry.java:155) at org.openide.loaders.MultiDataObject.handleCreateFromTemplate(MultiDataObject.java:881) at org.openide.loaders.DefaultDataObject.handleCreateFromTemplate(DefaultDataObject.java:169) at org.openide.loaders.DataObject$CreateAction.run(DataObject.java:1597) at org.openide.loaders.DataObjectPool$1WrapAtomicAction.run(DataObjectPool.java:261) at org.openide.filesystems.EventControl.runAtomicAction(EventControl.java:127) at org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem.runAtomicAction(FileSystem.java:519) at org.openide.loaders.DataObjectPool.runAtomicAction(DataObjectPool.java:286) at org.openide.loaders.DataObject.invokeAtomicAction(DataObject.java:1051) at org.openide.loaders.DataObject.createFromTemplate(DataObject.java:983) at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizard$DefaultIterator.instantiate(TemplateWizard.java:919) at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizard.handleInstantiate(TemplateWizard.java:605) at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizard.instantiateNewObjects(TemplateWizard.java:439) at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizardIterImpl.instantiate(TemplateWizardIterImpl.java:248) at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizardIteratorWrapper.instantiate(TemplateWizardIteratorWrapper.java:160) at org.openide.WizardDescriptor.callInstantiateOpen(WizardDescriptor.java:1629) at org.openide.WizardDescriptor.callInstantiate(WizardDescriptor.java:1570) at org.openide.WizardDescriptor.access$2300(WizardDescriptor.java:92) [catch] at org.openide.WizardDescriptor$Listener$2$1.run(WizardDescriptor.java:2257) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1443) at org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.GlobalLookup.execute(GlobalLookup.java:68) at org.openide.util.lookup.Lookups.executeWith(Lookups.java:303) at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:2058)
This was done intentionally when fixing issue 258298. But the issue that canRead() returned true for such directories, so IDE allowed to call new file creation, but it failed. This is now fixed on enum/r82, change set 262ecf3b03f4
Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201612030001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/cdf7380d5506 User: Vladimir Kvashin <vkvashin@netbeans.org> Log: Fix and test for #269195 - Remote can not create a file inside a cyclic link (transplanted from 262ecf3b03f4b52bd9e4a534e4bcebc712a8cf23)
Verified in internal NetBeans 8,2 patch 1 build.