ls: fix symlink chain target coloring#10274
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Doing a bit more research and theres another pre-existing bug that colors for file extensions is not working, I think there should be a simple fix too but will add some integration tests for that use case too. |
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You only care if it is a link right? Generally file name canonicalization should be avoided, unless it is absolutely necessary. It can become very inefficient: |
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When I was reviewing this PR #9006 I tried to do some fuzzing of the existing implementation to see if the PR was implementing any behaviour that was missing and came across that the ls utility was matching all of GNU's coloring except for on nested symlinks.
When looking at what that was the case I saw that it was just a three line fix when compared to the the current implementation