• Electron version: 1.4.15
• Operating system: Mac OS 10.11.6

Desired behavior

1. Create a symlink to a file:

ln  -s  the-existing-file  the-alias

2. Display the Open File dialog using a new API to preserve symlink paths:

electron.dialog.showOpenDialog({
  properties: ['openFile'],

  // This is a new flag. I don't know what it should be called.
  resolveAliases: false, 
}, (selectedPaths) => {
  console.log(selectedPaths);
})

3. Select the symlink path.

4. See that the callback is called with the symlink paths (the-alias).

Actual behavior

Currently, when a symlink is selected, the callback is always called with the symlink's resolved path.

Notes

• The relevant OSX API: -(NSOpenPanel *) resolvesAliases
• An OSX bug that prevents the resolvesAliases flag from working unless the symlink is the last element of the path: http://www.openradar.me/11398659