[mythtv-commits] Ticket #13626: Allow the image viewer to handle symlinks

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#13626: Allow the image viewer to handle symlinks
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     Reporter:  jwhite66          |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  Patch - Bug Fix   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  minor             |  Milestone:  needs_triage
    Component:  MythTV - General  |    Version:  Unspecified
     Severity:  medium            |   Keywords:
Ticket locked:  0                 |
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 A valuable use case for me, personally, is to have my images organized
 stored based on how they were acquired, but then write scripts to organize
 them more systematically, with symlinks back to the source files.

 The current code prevents that by ignoring symbolic links.  That choice
 has existed since commit f3ba1b37c4c6db470bf21dcb54f77cd949777f63 in 2013
 which originated this function afaict.  It's not clear to me if ignoring
 symlinks solves a problem or was just chosen arbitrarily.  The videos
 viewer works fine with symlinks, so this makes the gallery more in step
 with video files.

 The change is trivial, and appears to work in my testing.  A pull request
 has been created for this as well.

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