Ghost file on Desktop

[humdinger]

This is hrev51059.

The strangest thing:
I created a symlink on the Desktop to /Generator/generated/objects/haiku/x86_gcc2/release/apps/softwareupdater/SoftwareUpdater. Now whenever I "jam -q SoftwareUpdater", a ghost file "SoftwareUpdater" appears on my desktop along the symlink!

Tracker identifies the ghost as the actual binary, located at the above path. In Terminal a "ls -la" of the Desktop shows only the symlink.

checkfs didn't show any issues.
Restarting Tracker exorcises the ghost file. What's going on?

I had a similar thing happen after moving a wonderbrush image from the Desktop to a folder on another partition, then creating a symlink from there back to the Desktop. I then created some source files and a makefile in that folder, and a "make" there resulted in ghost files of all those source files, plus the created "objects.x86-cc2-debug" folder.

Putting it under libtracker.so, might as well be a bfs bug? I dunno...

[axeld]

Never seen that myself, but yes, it could be a bug in either one.

[Giova84]

I've seen this behaviour since long time. Maybe is related to this one? ticket:11310

[bipolar]

FWIW, I see this more or less regularly on beta4.

In my case, it involves:

• Having a symlink in Destop to ~/src/some_git_repo/file.txt
• Having a Tracker window open for ~/src/some_git_repo/
• Running git pull on ~/src/some_git_repo/.

If git pull updates files... I end up with those appearing as "ghost files" in Desktop.

Rest of the symptoms match:

• Ghost files are only present in Tracker (ls ~/Desktop doesn't shows them).
• Ghost files disappear on Tracker restart.