From 98a443cc61a02261fcbdad945a8c6c664e279d50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Klaus Schmidinger <vdr@tvdr.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:09:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revoked "Fixed handling symbolic links in
 cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()"

---
 HISTORY     | 3 +++
 recording.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4739f3e2..8f9f2477 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6839,3 +6839,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 2012-01-16: Version 1.7.24
 
 - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto).
+- Revoked "Fixed handling symbolic links in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()".
+  This change actually broke handling symbolic links (see
+  http://www.vdr-portal.de/board1-news/board2-vdr-news/p1047199-announce-vdr-developer-version-1-7-23/#post1047199).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index cf35bb7a..63caaf53 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.43 2012/01/15 11:04:24 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.44 2012/01/16 12:05:41 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ void cRecordings::ScanVideoDir(const char *DirName, bool Foreground, int LinkLev
         if (strcmp(e->d_name, ".") && strcmp(e->d_name, "..")) {
            cString buffer = AddDirectory(DirName, e->d_name);
            struct stat st;
-           if (lstat(buffer, &st) == 0) {
+           if (stat(buffer, &st) == 0) {
               int Link = 0;
               if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
                  if (LinkLevel > MAX_LINK_LEVEL) {