COMMAND

    mc

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    mc 4.5.40

PROBLEM

    Michal Zalewski found following:

        ~$ grep lslR /usr/lib/mc/extfs/extfs.ini
        # For browsing lslR listings (found on many ftp sites)
        lslR
        ~$ ls -l /usr/lib/mc/extfs/lslR
        -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          635 paź 18  1998 /usr/lib/mc/extfs/lslR
        ~$ ln -s /DoesNotExist ';echo>PROVE-IT;#lslR'
        ~$ touch ';echo>PROVE-IT;'
        ~$ ls -l PROVE-IT
        ls: PROVE-IT: No such file or directory
        ~$ mc

    Surprisingly, you'll see directory  instead of broken symlink.  No
    need to do anything, immediately quit from Midnight Commander

        ~$ ls -l PROVE-IT
        -rw-------   1 lcamtuf  lcamtuf         1 lip 10 05:55 PROVE-IT

    Nice - lslR fs support is only an example, of course.

SOLUTION

    Nothing  yet.   Anyway,  few  ppl  couldn't  repro  this.  perhaps
    distro?