From d4887f3ea8959d91b0c669721c42bc98ed8dfe7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Appelman <robin@icewind.nl>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:30:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] better symlink handling

---
 src/main.rs | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 05eebff..4bd9aea 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ use osc94::Progress;
 use rayon::prelude::*;
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
-use std::fs::File;
+use std::fs::{canonicalize, File};
 use std::io::{read_to_string, stdin, BufReader, Stderr, Write};
 use std::iter::once;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ fn main() -> MainResult {
             })?;
             LogFile::from_string(content)
         } else {
+            let path = canonicalize(path)?;
+            let path = path
+                .into_os_string()
+                .into_string()
+                .map_err(|_| "non utf8 path")?;
             let file = File::open(&path)?;
             let file = BufReader::new(file);
             LogFile::open(&path, file).map_err(|err| LogError::Read { err, path })?