[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.

termux-app/termux-shared/src/main/java/com/termux/shared/termux/TermuxConstants.java

Lines 720 to 728 in 36d811e

	/** Termux app properties primary file path */
	public static final String TERMUX_PROPERTIES_PRIMARY_FILE_PATH = TERMUX_DATA_HOME_DIR_PATH + "/termux.properties"; // Default: "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.termux/termux.properties"
	/** Termux app properties primary file */
	public static final File TERMUX_PROPERTIES_PRIMARY_FILE = new File(TERMUX_PROPERTIES_PRIMARY_FILE_PATH);
	/** Termux app properties secondary file path */
	public static final String TERMUX_PROPERTIES_SECONDARY_FILE_PATH = TERMUX_CONFIG_HOME_DIR_PATH + "/termux.properties"; // Default: "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/.config/termux/termux.properties"
	/** Termux app properties secondary file */
	public static final File TERMUX_PROPERTIES_SECONDARY_FILE = new File(TERMUX_PROPERTIES_SECONDARY_FILE_PATH);

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