[Bug]: termux.properties doesn't work when it's a symlink

[xronin01]

Problem description

Steps to reproduce the behavior.

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What is the expected behavior?

No response

System information

• Termux application version: 0.118.0+36d811e
• Android OS version: 11

[xronin01]

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/actions/runs/10929630705

[agnostic-apollo]

That's not allowed due to security reasons as symlinks could be created to public directories. Restriction might be eased in future if possible.

[TomJo2000]

That is the expected behavior. Termux expects to be operating on a file, not a symlink, for termux.properties. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/blob/36d811ea7d6b0e76a6860e58cd08b0a24bf9f69a/termux-shared/src/main/java/com/termux/shared/termux/TermuxConstants.java#L720-L728

As you can see in the snippet above, if you don't want to use the location in ~/.termux/termux.properties you can alternatively use ~/.config/termux/termux.properties