0010126: taler.conf can't be symlink of symlink

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0010126	Taler	merchant backend	public	2025-06-23 23:39	2025-06-23 23:39

Reporter	hank	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	1.0

Summary	0010126: taler.conf can't be symlink of symlink
Description	taler-merchant-httpd can't read taler.conf if it's a symlink pointing to a symlink pointing to the actual file. the rule in Linux is normally resolving a chain of symlinks recursively until the actual file. this is a problem e.g. for kubernetes which maps config files as configmaps into the file system using a 2-hop symlink. https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap/#using-configmaps-as-files-from-a-pod
Steps To Reproduce	create "tmp2" with the actual config contents, and 2 symlinks: # ls -la total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 23:32 . drwxr-xr-x 153 root root 12288 Jun 23 23:07 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 23 23:29 taler.conf -> tmp1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 23 23:29 tmp1 -> tmp2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 401 Jun 23 23:07 tmp2
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-06-23 23:39	hank	New Issue