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bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:28:28 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
Hi Paul,
> The symlink target is a string not a file name, so giving it to file
> name handler can cause the make-symbolic-link call to be
> misinterpreted.
If you want to have an absolute filename as LINKNAME, you typically call
(make-symbolic-link (expand-file-name target) (expand-file-name linkname))
In case of remote file names, (expand-file-name linkname) will always
return something like "/method:user@host:/path/to/linkname". I doubt,
that a user wants to see this literal string as symbolic link.
Furthermore, there is the OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS argument of
make-symbolic-string. This requires to regard LINKNAME as a file name,
and not as a literal string.
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, (continued)
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/20
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/20
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/20
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/20
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/21
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/22
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Michael Albinus, 2017/08/24
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/25
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Michael Albinus, 2017/08/25
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Michael Albinus, 2017/08/26
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/26
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, npostavs, 2017/08/20
- bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents, Paul Eggert, 2017/08/20