MySQL Bugs: #16480: Symbolic links to databases aren't working

Bug #16480	Symbolic links to databases aren't working
Submitted:	13 Jan 2006 13:37	Modified:	13 Jan 2006 13:54
Reporter:	Name Withheld	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	4.1.16	OS:	Microsoft Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

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Description:
On Windows, symbolic links to databases (i.e. ".sym files") stopped working in MySQL 4.1.15.

How to repeat:
In MySQL 4.1.15 or 4.1.16, boot mysqld.  It doesn't matter whether you use the the "--symbolic-links" option.

Execute "SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'have_symlink';".

It returns "NO".  And in fact, symbolic links don't work.  For example:  if there are .sym files in the data folder, the corresponding databases aren't listed by "SHOW DATABASES;".

(In MySQL 4.1.14 and previous, that same query returns "YES"; and symbolic links work as expected.)

Thank you for the bug report. Duplicate of bug:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14960